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The manager of the Hospital for Infectious Diseases “Victor Babeș” in Timișoara said that the six patients who died from COVID and who were not carried out in ATI, had no chance anyway and that “they were practically sick patients” because they had multiple comorbidities and could not have been saved even in intensive care, reports Agerpres.
“These are six patients with multiple comorbidities, elderly, who not even intensive care could help. Unfortunately, death occurred, but COVID was the negative driver in the clinical course of these patients. But I emphasize that the patients were elderly, with multiple comorbidities in the neurological and oncological fields and the prognosis was practically the same, although intensive therapy was applied to them ”, said Cristian Oancea, manager of the” Victor Babeș “hospital in Timișoara.
Oancea’s reaction comes after the same hospital’s infectious disease doctor, Virgil Musta, drew attention to the situation in the ATI department.
We are in a difficult situation, we have not had space for Intensive Care for several days and we have very serious cases in the ward that, at some point, there is a risk that in their evolution they will decompensate and as we do not have intensive care, we cannot we put them on mechanical ventilation, ”Virgil Musta said. “So we keep them under high oxygen pressure, but unfortunately, it is not enough. It happened that during yesterday (Sunday, no.) Until this morning (Monday, no.) Six people died, all with very serious forms, hospitalized both in the Department of Infectious Diseases and in Pneumoftiziology and that they were decompensated and I had no solution for them Virgil Musta said.
“Under no circumstances was there a problem that they were neglected,” Oancea said. “A patient I know was 82 years old, another 70, they had neoplasms, some with paralysis, and COVID was the impulse to which you had nothing to do,” said pulmonologist Cristian Oancea, manager of the hospital.
“They were feared patients who could no longer cope with the comorbidities and the number of comorbidities”
Oancea said that at the moment there are 16 patients in 14 ATI places in the hospital and another place was created, on Wednesday morning, by transferring a patient to the ATI department of the Municipal Hospital.
“I even have two patients admitted to ATI and I tell them something about my personal practice. I saw a neurological patient with a stroke the other day. In the morning, biologically, he had reduced his inflammation, I had informed the family that he could be better the next day, but at night he had a sudden and inevitable cardiac arrest, ”said Cristian Oancea.
“My colleagues and I have had cases of this type and I am all over the country. They were practically disabled patients, who could no longer cope with the comorbidities and the number of comorbidities. But there was no doubt that they had suffered from a lack of care medical “.
In addition, the manager Cristian Oancea specified that the Infectious Diseases Hospital has five separate ATI beds for non-COVID pathology, two of which are reserved for pediatrics, if there is any case.
“We must also take care of patients who do not have COVID, the seasonal flu has appeared and in previous years we also had patients with seasonal flu who needed to be admitted to ATI. We have not yet had seasonal flu in the hospital, so we must be prepared and make sure we have beds available for such cases. We maintained a necessary minimum that we consider adequate for non-COVID cases, ”Oancea explained.
Even Romania’s President Klaus Iohannis spoke about the case in Timisoara and described the situation as a lack of communication.
“Tonight they informed me that there would be places in Timisoara, only they did not meet and the communication was not optimal. I hope these things do not happen again,” said Iohannis.
Publisher: ML
