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Secretary of State Raed Arafat said Tuesday that the pressure on the medical system in the context of the large number of cases of new coronavirus infections continues to mount and is slowly entering the “logic of disaster medicine.”
“Today’s situation is one that we have unfortunately anticipated. The pressure on the healthcare system is obvious. We see pressure that continues to mount and this is again something that has been anticipated, given the number of cases that occur every day. Clearly, a percentage of these cases will end up in hospitals, they need advanced medical care and some of them even intensive care. (…) Now, little by little, little by little, we are entering the logic of disaster medicine, in We need a different management than prevention measures, prevention measures that must continue in an epidemiological line, measures that will stop the spread. These are the most important. But, at the same time, we are now facing a situation that requires application of very well calculated measures to be able to treat and care for the largest possible number of patients, ”said Arafat.
According to him, there will be days when 100 patients will be registered to enter Intensive Care, which means adapting the system and introducing work mechanisms according to the concepts of disaster medicine.
“Their role is to treat as many people as possible to do good for as many people as possible,” Raed Arafat told SARC-CoV2. Seasonal flu. Vaccination ”, organized by Profit.ro, according to Agerpres.
He added that it seeks to increase the number of places in the Intensive Care Units, but also to increase human resources.
“With Minister Tataru, I had discussions with several hospitals recently to increase intensive care capacity in Bucharest, but the only thing that we cannot suddenly increase is the number of doctors and staff dealing with intensive care cases. (…) We have a plan to correct the human resources part a bit, to now recover all the doctors who have completed the specialized exploration in ATI, in emergencies, in pulmonology, in infectious diseases, in radiology and epidemiology, to hire them. immediately without competition, to create a workforce that we can dispatch where needed on duty. (…) We hope that in the first phase about 200 people will be able to hire them, doctors we are talking about here, in the end they will be able to choose where they want to move and have their position in the existing vacancies, also without competition. The emergency ordinance has been read, it will be approved this week, “Arafat said.
Arafat: “The influx of patients will last at least 4-6 weeks”
The Secretary of State mentioned that there are around 70 anesthetists who have completed the specialty, but also emergency physicians, who do not have any position.
“The human resources part continues to be the most serious part that we have to face with proper management, so that our colleagues can do their job. We must recognize that it is impossible to do our work in accordance with the provisions of the Labor Code, we are in a situation that no longer allows it and then we must adapt our schedule, adapt our way of working, in which there is also time for rest. But at the same time there should be enough staff in hospitals, health facilities and emergency services to care for the largest number of patients. Perhaps this influx of patients will last at least four to five or six weeks, “said Raed Arafat.
He said they were trying to take action without hurting the economy. “We are trying not to harm the economy, but at the same time, compensatory measures must be strictly observed if we want to maintain a limited number of cases every day and even start to have a decrease in the number of cases,” he said. Arafat.
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