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The 65-year-old man who died on Friday while waiting for an intensive care bed for patients with COVID had arrived at the Emergency Service of the Hospital Municipal de Mediaș on Wednesday, October 21 in serious condition, with clear symptoms of COVID infection and comorbidities.
Doctors tried to stabilize him, examined him, and contacted the National Center for Intervention Coordination to find a place for intensive care. Meanwhile, however, the patient’s condition worsened.
“He arrived at the Emergency Reception Unit of the Hospital Municipal de Mediaș in serious condition. He had symptoms similar to the symptoms of infection by the SARS CoV-2 virus, so samples were taken for the RT-PCR test of COVID-19. He was hospitalized and his condition gradually worsened. After receiving the positive result, he contacted the National Center for Intervention Management and Coordination (CNCCI) to request a place in the ATI department, with the Hospital de Mediaș the ATI department for Covid patients in the settlement, “said Andreea Ștefan, spokeswoman for Sibiu prefecture, quoted by Mediafax.
He was mechanically ventilated, but needed intubation.
As the man’s condition worsened, the ATI Mediaș doctors and the patient were requested to intervene. was mechanically ventilated.
Meanwhile, taking into account that his condition was showing progressive worsening, the intervention of the doctors from the ATI Media department was requested, after which he was mechanically ventilated and constantly monitored by the pulmonologist, the ATI doctor and the doctor on call. ”, He added. Andreea Ștefan.
On Friday, however, the man died.
“Even if the Mediaș Municipal Hospital is not fully prepared for patients confirmed as positive with SARS CoV-2, it has benefited from all the necessary medical support and the medical body has done everything possible to save his life,” said the spokesman. Prefecture.
The Media hospital hospital does not have intensive therapy for patients with COVID-19, only two or three stations will be installed here 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, as of Monday, 2 or 3 Therapy places at the Municipal Hospital “, Gabriel Budescu, head of DSP Sibiu, told Mediafax.
All intensive care beds in Transylvania are taken
Asked whether an attempt was made to transfer this patient to another hospital where an ATI bed could have been found, Gabriel Budescu said that in Transylvania this possibility no longer exists, all intensive care 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, ”said Gabriel Budescu.
An alarm sounds: the situation will become more and more difficult.
“I want to stop encountering situations like this. The situation will become more and more difficult because there are elderly people, who, unfortunately, due to their neglect or the neglect of relatives, colleagues, end up spreading this virus and you know that the situation is very delicate ”, the director of DSP Sibiu also declared.
Severe COVID-19 patients are treated at the Sibiu County Emergency Clinical Hospital, where there are only 12 beds in Intensive Care. 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.
