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70 Covid-19 patients are currently being treated at LSMU Kaunas Hospital, and four dozen patients are receiving oxygen therapy.
“We could accept about 30 new patients to date, using the facilities of other departments – more
same. The problem is not in the facilities or in the beds, which are many, but in the number of doctors, “said Delfi Saulius Tvirbutas, spokesman for the LSMU Kaunas Hospital.
He mentioned that the greatest shortage is infectologists who bear the greatest workload during a coronavirus pandemic.
“If in the past, during the flu epidemic, patients received 50 beds, now the figures are completely different. The limits of possibilities are being exceeded, capacities are being” broken “, said the representative of the LSMU Kaunas Hospital.
According to S. Tvirbutas, the hospital has a large number of employees, so it would be possible to strengthen the brigades that fight with Covid-19. However, then the work of other departments and the availability of their services would be affected.
“There are other diseases besides Covid-19, including very serious infectious diseases. We have been in a support hospital for 8 months, the staff is tired, the limit has been reached … Therefore, we are waiting for other medical institutions in the city and region of Kaunas to help us accept coronavirus patients ”, S. Tvirbutas said.
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