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“We are ready to open a new section of RITS (Resuscitation and Intensive Care) for cow patients (…) but we have not needed it yet. We will closely monitor the situation.
The fact is that despite the increasing total number of infected population, the number of hospitalizations in the last week has not changed much in the Vilnius region. It remains stable.
There is better news here, “F. Jankevičius told reporters on Friday.
The head of the Santara clinics said late last week that a list of scheduled services was being prepared to curb the surge in COVID-19 patient flows, but no such measures were needed, he said, as the fees of hospitalization remained stable.
“We are not reducing scheduled services yet. But I reassembled. The situation may change and if we need it, we will be forced to open an additional RITS branch, then it will also affect the planned services,” warned F. Jankevičius.
It associates the stabilization of hospitalization with a sufficiently high level of vaccination in the country.
COVID-19 is used to treat 4 children
It is true that alarming trends continue in the COVID-19 ward, patients are getting younger and younger.
“Quota combat the patients were younger. Today we have patients of all ages. Even from the age of 30. We also have several hospitalized children.
Today, 4 children are hospitalized, sick kovidu. But perhaps the number of seriously ill patients will continue to decline, “said the director of the Santara clinics.
He added with regret that two patients connected to EKMO devices are currently being treated at the Santara clinics. Their condition is so serious that they do not have adequate artificial lung ventilation normally.
Both patients are elderly, not vaccinated.
Approximately 80% of the 78 COVID-19 beds in Santara clinics are occupied. RITS bed occupancy ranges from 80 to 90 percent.
Almost 80% of the 110 are occupied in the Vilnius City Clinical Hospital, all RITS beds are occupied. In the smallest hospitals in the region, bed occupancy is 70 to 80 percent.
