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Feliksas Jankevičius, General Director of Santara Clinics, presented the latest information on the COVID-19 situation in Santara clinics and the Vilnius region.
The situation is stable
F. Jankevičius says that the Santara clinics are preparing to open a new intensive care and intensive care room (RITS) for the treatment of COVID-19 patients.
“We have made a number of structural changes. However, this has not yet been necessary and we will monitor the situation,” said F. Jankevičius at the press conference.
According to him, the number of hospitalizations in the Vilnius region has not changed significantly in the last week and remains stable.
“We know that we are very tense and ready to respond to the changing and very dynamic situation,” says F. Jankevičius.
Currently, 80% of the 78 beds available for COVID-19 patients in Santara clinics are occupied.
Also, the occupancy of the RITS beds has not changed yet. It also varies from 80 to 90 percent. The situation is similar in other hospitals in the Vilnius region, ”says F. Jankevičius.
Approximately 80% of the 110 COVID-19 beds available in the Vilnius City Clinical Hospital are occupied. According to the specialist, all the RITS beds are occupied.
“In other hospitals in the region, that is, in Alytus, Ukmergė, Elektrėnai, the occupancy of the COVID-19 beds varies from 70 to 80 percent, the same as last week. It is very gratifying that we do not see the need to increase the number of RITS beds (number – past aut.), Because the number of hospitalizations remains similar ”, says F. Jankevičius.
He said the Santara clinics could open a room with an additional ten RITS beds.
The number of scheduled services in the hospital is not reduced either.
Ask for continued caution
“I warn you again: the situation may change and if we need it, we will be forced to open an additional RITS branch, then of course it will also affect the planned services”, comments F. Jankevičius.
According to the professor, the epidemiological situation can change at any time and anything is possible.
“We are monitoring the situation as it may change. The number of cases grows. Hopefully, I want to hope that the more stable hospitalization is due to the fact that vaccination rates are increasing and have reached almost 70%, people just do not get seriously ill and do not need to be hospitalized.
This allows us not to overload our health system and to keep our services scheduled for the moment. Let us be very patient, observe the situation, observe all possible protective measures and, of course, continue the vaccination where it is possible to do so today ”, says F. Jankevičius.
According to F. Jankevičius, due to COVID-19, more and more young residents are admitted to hospitals.
“We have patients of all ages, even from the age of 30 and younger. We also have several hospitalized children, today four children with COVID-19 are hospitalized in children’s hospitals. However, the number of seriously ill patients continues to decline. We have extremely serious RITS patients, but their number is stable so far, ”says F. Jankevičius.
Two patients in the Santara clinics are connected to ECMO systems, simple pulmonary ventilation is not enough. According to F. Jankevičius, these are elderly patients, none of whom have been vaccinated.
The condition of the children treated in the hospital is not critical. The youngest is a boy of several years.
Highlights the importance of vaccination
F. Jankevičius emphasizes that elderly patients are at the greatest risk.
“First, they have a lot of comorbidities, as a rule. Without a doubt, its resistance to diseases is lower. This means that they are more seriously ill and their treatment is more complicated and, of course, fatal outcomes are more common among them, ”says F. Jankevičius.
The specialist says that is why it is important to get vaccinated. Of all the COVID-19 patients currently treated at the Santara clinics, the majority are not vaccinated. However, there are people who are being treated and vaccinated.
“Or they are older people and they have many comorbidities. Among them are those whose immunity waned after the second vaccination dose, because a sufficiently long period of time had elapsed, more than six months, ”says F. Jankevičius.
According to him, about two-thirds of the doctors at the Santara clinics have received the third dose of the vaccine. Currently five doctors who are infected with COVID-19 are known to be infected due to a weakening of immunity after the second dose.
The case curve rises
It was reported on Friday that 1970 new cases of COVID-19 were detected last day, 18 people died, the Department of Statistics announced on Friday.
15 of the dead were not vaccinated or were not fully vaccinated, three were fully vaccinated.
3,335 people were vaccinated with the first dose of the vaccine per day. A total of 8771 people were vaccinated per day.
Hospitals are currently treating 1,223 COVID-19 patients, 22 more than the previous day, 133 in resuscitation.
About 16,1 thousand jobs were carried out in the country last day. molecular (PCR) and 11.3 thousand. antigen testing for suspected coronavirus.
The requirement to wear masks indoors is back
As of Friday, the use of masks indoors is required in Lithuania.
By government decision, as of October 1, masks are mandatory in closed spaces when services are provided or received, purchases are made, events, etc., regardless of whether the activity is carried out with or without an opportunity passport.
To date, the use of masks indoors has been recommended for passport holders, that is, people vaccinated or infected by coronavirus.
The above exceptions remain: masks are not mandatory for the disabled if they cannot wear them due to their health, providing services that cannot be provided with a mask, when eating in public catering establishments.
The recommendation for public and private legal entities to organize work remotely also comes into force.
The Cabinet of Ministers this week approved such amendments to the resolution on the declaration of an emergency at the state level.
The order in schools does not change: masks are still mandatory for older students and primary school children will no longer need to wear them.
If mandatory masks are returned, the responsibility for not wearing them rests with the individual.
Violation of public health legislation, which endangered the spread of dangerous or particularly dangerous communicable diseases during quarantine, in an emergency, threatens people from 500 to 1500 euros, legal persons – from 1.5 to 6 thousand. EUR fines.
The hardening was confirmed due to the rapid spread of the delta strain of coronavirus. Last week, Lithuania entered the worst “black” zone of the pandemic.
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