When a coronavirus patient fell ill with a coronavirus, a sad fate awaited the elderly lying “in bed”

A woman who did not want to reveal her first and last name introduced herself to Delfi. According to her, the family was shocked by the current system or, in other words, by its absence.

“The man’s mother fell ill, she was already a respectable age, but she continued to take care of her late husband’s sister, who was lying” in bed. ” He fell seriously ill and lay in hospital. That’s right, COVID-19 has been set up for that.

My husband had contact with his mother, feeling isolated. So clever and she’s a liar woman kovidasIt just had no temperature. We call the ambulance and it doesn’t matter that we have to wait four hours, but when we arrive, they say that they will not take her to the hospital because she has no temperature. “

According to her, this is where the “fun” begins, because after persuading and seeing a very good doctor, the nurse was taken to Vilnius.

“It was around 5 in the afternoon, but almost half past twelve at night they announced that in Vilnius, unfortunately, they did not go to bed and they took us home. A man with a positive COVID-19 explained that there was no one to breastfeed her and said that he would try to transport her to Švenčionys. We waited for them to put it there. I wonder why not deal with such situations and what to do in such a case.

Is this person already “discarded” here and can he be dragged all over Lithuania like a dog? Could you ask yourself why all this happens in a civilized state? How much can they suffer such nonsense? Who will be responsible for the moral trauma of that person? The woman asked.

They also asked why a plan is not being developed in municipalities when the situation is in hospitals to train social workers who can help in such cases.

“Is it necessary to put the ‘stomach’ here and not say that a COVID-19 person and hire a nurse, spit that this is going to spread the virus?”

Help can be expected in Vilnius

Delfi first contacted the Santara clinics and asked for clarification on the current status of the bedridden patients. Their representatives stressed that after checking the status of the patients brought in, seriously or very seriously ill patients are placed first. He also pointed out that if a person needs to be transported, then it must be the decision of the municipalities.

Irena Kiselienė, Advisor of the Vilnius Municipality Social Integration Branch, stated that the Vilnius City Social Support Center for people with COVID-19 and able to move within the home could organize home help with food, hot food, medicines, etc. in accordance with safety requirements.

“The Social Support Center provides unique transportation services for people going to / from medical institutions in Vilnius (no bedridden services are provided), but in this case you are asked about the transportation services of a medical institution to another, these services must be organized by medical institutions, especially the safety of the person with COVID-19 must be guaranteed “.

Also, when commenting on the aforementioned situation, where it is stated that a person is lying and suffers from COVID-19, in which case they would not have enough help at home, help should be organized in a health institution or other institution.

“The Social Support Center had a situation where a person with COVID-19 left the medicine at the door, and another – when a relative with COVID-19 got sick, an elderly man with COVID-19 stayed home, but the situation was resolved because the person was hospitalized.

Regarding the transport of patients, Santara Clinics organizes the transport of patients to the district medical institutions, and the transport back from those institutions (when the patient is discharged) is handled by the Vilnius city municipality ”.

The Ministry of Social Security and Labor (SADM) commented that municipalities are in charge of providing social services to residents of their territory, so in case of a family crisis, residents should contact the municipal department of social services or old age (your social worker).

“It is also possible to apply to an institution that provides social services or an institution that provides ambulatory care services at home. Other institutions must also inform the municipality about the social services they need, if they see that there is such a need. We consider that in the In this case, the need for assistance to the family should have been reported to the municipality by the employees of the health institutions, if they had not been able to provide the necessary assistance in their institutions.

Municipal staff must decide on a case-by-case basis on the visit and provision of services to people with COVID-19 who are in self-isolation and who present symptoms characteristic of the disease, in accordance with the legislation on quarantine conditions, ”said the response.

At the same time, he stated that home help should also be provided under quarantine conditions, if the vital needs of a sick person (presumed ill) require contact, constant assistance in finding acceptable ways of providing services that meet the needs and interests of person. person (your family) and in accordance with security requirements.

The age of the sick is getting younger

We remind you that according to data from the Santara clinics on April 27, 81 percent of Vilnius residents are busy. (81 sites) for resuscitation and intensive care and 86% for 606 active treatment sites. The greatest shortage of active resuscitation and treatment sites for COVID-19 is felt in the city of Vilnius.

In the clinics of the Vilnius Santara University Hospital, where only seriously ill and seriously ill patients are treated, resuscitation and intensive care places are already 88% occupied and active treatment 80%. , that is, 128 of the 159 active treatment sites were occupied in clinics, and 59 of the 67 resuscitation and intensive care units were occupied, that is, the remaining 8 vacancies in resuscitation and intensive care units.

Sick patients continue to be observed at an earlier age: the number of patients has increased to 40 and the average age of patients treated in resuscitation is approximately 50 years.