The doctor of the Santara clinics warns: there comes a time when patients will have to take care of themselves

“The admissions department is stuck because we have a large number of patients, the doctors are not some kind of clone, they do not inflate, they do not produce in a day and there may come a time when the patient just needs to take care of themselves. When do you Will the rescue of the drowned man become a matter of the same drowning? ”warned Linas Svetikas, head of the Department of Admission-Emergencies at the Infectious Diseases Clinic, in a live broadcast organized by Clinicas Santara on Thursday.

He urged to avoid contacts, not to go where it is not necessary, to communicate with relatives by phone, not to visit relatives during the holidays, because the situation in medical institutions, according to the doctor, is already becoming a tragedy.

“If we don’t get along and continue to have the same image in the city when the mass flows, the masses of people are distracted by the vagueness of the city, then, you know, the future awaits us very bleak,” he said.

According to L. Svetikas, patients with moderate or severe form of COVID-19 are coming to the receiving department and a significant number of them have lung damage.

“Pneumonia is not the same as pneumonia. There are some patients who come in with radiologically visible signs of lung damage that have not yet started, or some mild, so to speak, signs of damage. Other patients, especially those with severe form, sometimes do not see the image of the lungs on x-rays, “he said.

However, Edvard Danila, director of the Center for Pulmonology and Allergology, emphasized that not all people with COVID-19 or other causes of pneumonia should be hospitalized, and some of them could be discharged for treatment at home after an evaluation and medication.

Health Minister Arūnas Dulkys warned on Wednesday that if the requirements are not met, the health system may not be able to support it after two weeks.

A stricter quarantine regime went into effect in Lithuania on Wednesday, during which many shops, barber shops were closed and the movement of people restricted.

Prime Minister Ingrida Šimonytė says that if people adhere to the established restrictions, currently often 3,000. The daily rate of newly diagnosed coronavirus cases could drop to 500-700 by the end of January.

According to data on Thursday, 2,356 COVID-19 patients are being treated in hospitals, 184 of them in resuscitation.