The first OFFICIAL case of a patient with COVID-19 who died while waiting to be given a place in ATI in a hospital – News from sources



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A COVID-19 patient admitted to the Mediaş Municipal Hospital, which does not have ATI beds for patients with the new coronavirus, died on Friday, while waiting to be transferred to an Intensive Care Unit of another hospital. declared by AGERPRES the director of the Directorate of Public Health (DSP) Sibiu, Dr. Gabriel Budescu.

“He died. They asked him to take him somewhere to an ATI, it was not done anywhere, because there are no places. The people of Turda, for example, also ask for beds everywhere. many comorbidities (…), he had to be intubated ”, explained Budescu.

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According to the cited source, the Mediaş Municipal Hospital has an ATI department where there are six beds, but these are for patients who are not infected with the new coronavirus and are not sufficiently prepared for patients with COVID-19.

The director of DSP Sibiu announced that Mediaş Municipal Hospital is preparing to allocate three ATI beds for COVID-19 patients on Monday.

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When asked what the chances of survival were for this COVID-19 patient who had not been intubated in an ATI, Gabriel Budescu said the chances were quite small.

“85% of the patients who are intubated in ATI go. That is the probability, which is very small,” he said.

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According to the director of DSP Sibiu, a patient with COVID-19 died on Friday in the ATI Department of the County Emergency Clinical Hospital, where there are a total of 12 beds for patients infected with the new coronavirus and all are currently occupied. The COVID-19 cure rate in ATI in Sibiu is, on average, two patients, while ten die.

“At 12 beds, if two (patients – no) get up and leave the ATI standing and these are the ones who are younger patients, who are lazy and who can overcome it, but it is very difficult,” Gabriel emphasized. Budescu.

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COVID-19 patients who are hospitalized at the County Emergency Clinical Hospital and need to be intubated urgently, as they do not have free space in the ATI Department, are waiting to be transferred to other hospitals in the country, according to prefect Mircea Cretu and the director of the hospital Liliana Coldea.

The epidemiological situation in Sibiu County worsened on Friday, when four cases of children with COVID-19 were reported in the ATI Department of the Children’s Hospital, all with comorbidities and one intubated.

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The County Committee for Emergency Situations decided this Friday that in the city of Sibiu the use of a mask becomes mandatory and schools will conduct courses only online, starting on Saturday, for 14 days, after a rate of contagion with the new coronavirus of 3,24 per thousand inhabitants, reports the Prefecture.



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