What happened in Italy when the health system could no longer cope? Romania is one step away from this situation



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We ended a week with the news of a heart attack, in a country where the health system continues to be the weak link.

It is time to protect ourselves thoroughly and show respect for the doctors who since March seem to fight alone. Hospitals are overcrowded, and unfortunately Covid-19 is really dead. In the last 24 hours, he has mourned 123 families. The youngest of the victims was 21 years old.

Four of those who died Thursday through Friday had no other health problems, but even so, the infection eventually brought them down.

Rescuers are also falling more and more often, who have been making superhuman efforts for months to help those who are suffering. Corneliu Istrate was 51 years old and a nurse at the Brăila County Emergency Hospital. He was in the care of his intensive care colleagues for two weeks, after which he passed away.

Right now, more than a thousand people need respiratory assistance or at least an oxygen mask, because they can no longer breathe on their own.

Virgil Musta, physician at the Timișoara Infectious Diseases Hospital: “I saw situations. For example, yesterday the rescue came with a patient who stopped when coming out of the rescue and had to be resuscitated. There are many cases of this type.

Military doctor: “We had countless situations where the patient seemed stable and then it was necessary to intervene very quickly. We were accused by several people, who are in the offices, that we want to deceive them and they threatened to come and see if we had the entire section occupied. I invited them to come and count them. “

A place remains free in intensive care only for a few minutes, because in every hospital there are dozens of patients whose health can deteriorate at any time.

Virgil Musta, physician, Timișoara Infectious Diseases Hospital: “I can also tell you that the statistics in Italy showed that when the healthcare system was overwhelmed, the death rate from 3 to 5 percent increased to over 12 percent, which I don’t think we want. none of us. ”

In Romania, the latest report showed 10,260 new patients in just 24 hours. Not all will go to hospitals, but statistics so far have shown that 10 percent of those diagnosed with Covid-19 infection develop severe forms and half of those who end up in ATI die.

The total number of infections since the beginning of the pandemic is close to 300,000, and currently six counties have an incidence of cases greater than five per thousand inhabitants. Most of the new cases are in Cluj, Timiș, Bucharest and Sibiu.

Reporter: “Are you still doing Covid hospitals, exclusively Covid?”

Nelu Tătaru, Minister of Health: “No, right now we are re-evaluating what ATI capacity means and what local evolution means.”

All this time, the authorities are also talking about those who managed to overcome the disease. There are more than 195,000.

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