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The Vilnius region is currently 74 percent occupied. beds for active treatment and 55%. Beds for resuscitation and intensive care.
“We reduced the number of beds for a month, but last Friday, March 12, we began to monitor the increase in patients and opened 18 extra beds in the Santara clinics, which we filled over the weekend. (…) Since Monday, we have requested 20 additional beds in the Vilnius City Clinical Hospital, ”said Aušra Bilotienė-Motiejūnienė, managing director of Santara Clinics.
“We hope there are enough beds for this weekend, which will be released after the patients are discharged.” We also have an alternative plan: we have vacated an 18-bed unit in the Santara clinics, ”he added.
There are a total of 481 beds for the active treatment of COVID-19 patients in the Vilnius region, as well as 61 beds for resuscitation and intensive care treatment.
According to A. Bilotienė-Motiejūnienė, the increase in bed occupancy is associated with the fluctuating epidemiological situation and new strains of coronavirus.
Meanwhile, in the Kaunas region, the number of patients treated is declining for the sixth time: Starting next week, 86 beds will be destroyed for the treatment of COVID-19 patients.
According to Vaidotas Gurskis, head of the Kaunas region management group for COVID-19, the epidemiological situation in Lithuania and the Kaunas region is not stable.
“Although the number of hospital admissions is decreasing, a new strain of the virus is spreading, so we must maintain a reserve of COVID-19 beds for therapeutic and resuscitation profiles so that we can respond quickly to the changing situation in the region.” added. he said.
Starting Monday, 50 oxygen-supplied beds and four resuscitation and intensive care beds will be destroyed at LSMU Kaunas Hospital, as well as 10 oxygen-supplied beds will be redistributed in Kaunas clinics.
Starting next Monday, 10 beds with a therapeutic profile will be destroyed at the Kėdainiai Hospital, 10 beds with oxygen and two resuscitation and intensive care beds at the Jurbarkas Hospital.
The released beds will continue to be used to treat other patients.
A total of 255 beds with oxygen supply and 42 intensive care and resuscitation beds with the possibility of artificial lung ventilation remain in the Kaunas region from next week.
On Monday, Aistis Šimaitis, Project Manager of the Government Chancellery’s Project Management Group, announced that the “British” strain of coronavirus in Vilnius could reach half of all new cases and be dominant.
According to him, the official sequencing data is delayed for several weeks, but according to other data (loss of signal of the S gene), this figure could reach 50 percent.
To date, 188 cases of the British COVID-19 strain have been identified in Lithuania. Health experts say this strain is spreading faster and leading to higher mortality.
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