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On Thursday, Prime Minister Ludovic Orban asked the Health Minister for a reassessment of the situation of intensive care beds, stating that there is a tendency to overcrowd these rooms without a more careful evaluation of patients. The head of government also called for greater testing capacity. The government, faced with an accelerated increase in new cases of coronavirus, is also supplementing the DSP and Ambulance posts with 2,000 seats.
Health Minister Nelu Tătaru read at the beginning of the government meeting on Thursday the text of a draft government decision supplementing 1,000 posts each in the county and Bucharest public health directorates, respectively in the services of county ambulance and ambulance. Bucharest-Ilfov.
“To further increase the testing capacity, further increase the number of intensive care beds and also the number of beds for intermediate cases, for those who want to be treated in the hospital and do not want to be treated in a place where they are treated. isolate at home or elsewhere, “Ludovic Orban told the Health Minister.
As daily reports from authorities increase the number of patients in intensive care, and many COVID hospitals complain that they have reached maximum capacity, the prime minister called for a reassessment of the situation, stating that “there is a trend” to hospitalization in intensive care and patients who would not necessarily need ATI.
“Institutionalize more clearly what we discuss: not everyone has to join ATI. There is this tendency to admit patients to intensive care units who do not necessarily require intensive care. And then, there must be the intermediate wards that we are talking about, in which the evolution of the health status is obviously more closely monitored, but does not necessarily require hospitalization in the intensive care unit. Plus the operationalization of all sections. Not like they did in Brașov, because they discharged the modular hospital and closed the County Hospital. Therefore, they need to increase the number of beds available for intensive care, ”said Ludovic Orban.
“I suspect that from a technical point of view, by preparing beds equipped with everything we need, we can increase capacity, but I suspect that we tend to come to a standstill in the number of medical personnel,” he said. efficient use of residents.
Ludovic Orban calls for closer monitoring of PSDs and greater participation of family doctors
On the other hand, Ludovic Orban stressed that epidemiological investigations are key in the fight against COVID and that is why it is necessary to strengthen the DSP. Family doctors should also be more involved in the follow-up of cases.
Also, DSPs need to be more closely monitored. Once DSP decisions are made about people who have a positive diagnosis, they need to be monitored and followed up. Here I recommend that you find a solution -as we mentioned- and the involvement of family doctors for patients, especially those with mild cases, to guarantee a follow-up of the evolution of health. Because not only doctors in COVID hospitals and COVID support can monitor health, and doctors in DSPs are busy with many other things, epidemiological investigations. Continue insisting not only quantitatively, but also qualitatively on these epidemiological investigations, because this is the best way to fight: the isolation of contacts, like me, “said the prime minister at the beginning of the government meeting.
In public communication about the pandemic, “we must be very clear, very clear,” Ludovic Orban told members of the government.
Editor: Luana Pavaluca
