A man with coronavirus from Mediaș died waiting for an intensive care bed / Director of DSP: There is no intensive care for COVID in the municipal hospital, and all ATI places in Transylvania are occupied – Coronavirus

A 65-year-old man from Mediaș, Sibiu County, died on Friday while waiting for an intensive care bed that was to be “ready as of Monday.” The man had many comorbidities, the Municipal Hospital doctors gave him oxygen, but, in the end, his body gave way, reports Mediafax. The director of DSP Sibiu said that in Transylvania there are no more ATI beds, so the patient had nowhere to be transferred.

The director of the Sibiu Public Health Directorate (DSP), Gabriel Budescu, declared, on Friday evening, for MEDIAFAX, that the doctors of the Municipal Hospital of Mediaș did everything possible for this patient, but, unfortunately, in the end was declared death. The Media hospital hospital does not have intensive therapy for patients with COVID-19, and two or three stations will be installed on Monday.

“The patient received oxygen. They did not intubate him, but they administered oxygen. He had several comorbidities, ischemic heart disease, diabetes. He died. All care was provided, he had oxygen, only he was not intubated. In Mediaș he could not be intubated, Because the Intensive Care Unit is for the rest of the patients, who came from the wards where they were operated on. The positions (by ATI – no.) Were occupied anyway. Here (in Mediaș Hospital – no.) There is no intensive care for COVID. They will prepare, starting Monday, 2 or 3 Therapy posts at the Municipal Hospital, “said Budescu.

When asked if an attempt was made to transfer this patient to another hospital where an ATI position could have been found, Budescu said that in Transylvania this possibility no longer exists, all ATI beds are occupied.

“It’s full of patients who want to go to ATI (…) 3 – 4 – 5 – 7 … there is no possibility anywhere. Or at least in Transylvania there is no such possibility. But you should know that intubated patients can also lose their lives, because it is a struggle, “added Budescu.

An alarm sounds: the situation will become more and more difficult.

“I want to stop encountering situations like this. The situation will become increasingly difficult because there are elderly people who, unfortunately, due to their neglect or the neglect of relatives, colleagues, end up contaminating this virus and they know that the situation is very delicate ”He added, declared the director of DSP Sibiu.

COVID-19 patients in serious condition are treated at the Sibiu County Emergency Clinical Hospital, where there are only 12 Intensive Care beds. Although until the beginning of October, the hospital was able to receive patients from other counties, in the last two weeks, five patients with COVID-19 were transferred to the ATI wards in Argeș county.

Several towns in the county of Sibiu, including the city of Sibiu, entered the red stage on Saturday, due to the contagion rate, which exceeded 3 per thousand inhabitants.