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Klaipeda City Municipality is one of the hardest hit by COVID-19. According to data from the Ministry of Health, 100 thousand. the population is 1,142 thousand. cases where the country is less than 700.
Rožė Perminienė, Head of the Klaipėda City Municipality Health Department, stated that according to today’s data, the coronavirus was detected in 2,494 people.
“We do a lot of research. And up to a thousand and more per day. Last day, our laboratory identified 191 positive cases, of which 139 were detected from samples taken at mobile points,” said V. Janušonis.
Currently, there are two mobile checkpoints in Klaipeda, work on them is organized in four shifts.
Currently, 121 people are being treated at the Klaipeda University Hospital, 18 of them in resuscitation, 13 of them with ventilated lungs. This hospital only accepts seriously ill people. Other patients whose condition is not complicated are treated in regional hospitals or in Republican hospitals Klaipėda or Jūrininkai.
Photo by Aurelija Jašinskienė / 15min.lt / Klaipėda University Hospital
“We have security measures in place for a couple more months. It is not a problem. The problem is with the shooting. We did not stop the planned operations and the provision of emergency services at the hospital, as this provides us with a source of funding. Otherwise it would be difficult, “said V. Janušonis during the meeting of the municipal Committee for Health and Social Affairs on Tuesday.
According to him, the hospital is preparing another 20 extra beds for patients infected with COVID-19. But the biggest concern is whether there will be enough human resources to deal with them. Currently 21 doctors are in isolation at the Klaipeda University Hospital.
In Klaipeda, consideration is being given to where another 100 beds could be prepared for coronavirus patients.
It is considered that the Galinio Pylimo Street Fever Clinic could also be open on weekends. Here, patients with fever whose condition is not complicated are consulted. Almost 300 patients have already been consulted at this clinic.
V. Janušonis said that immunological tests were also carried out at the hospital. They were performed in almost 600 patients who had previously been diagnosed with coronavirus. “Immunity has been found in virtually all patients,” said the professor. Studies show that immunity is acquired after at least 6 months after COVID-19.
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