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A patient with COVID-19 hospitalized in the Municipal Hospital of Mediaş, a unit that does not have ATI beds for patients with the new coronavirus, died this Friday, while waiting to be transferred to an Intensive Care Unit of another hospital. said to AGERPRES the director of the Sibiu Public Health Directorate (DSP), Dr. Gabriel Budescu.
“He died. He was asked to take him somewhere to an ATI, it did not take place anywhere, because there are no places. Those of Turda, for example, also ask for beds everywhere. The man was given oxygen, only he had many comorbidities (…), he had to be intubated ”, explained Dr. Gabriel Budescu.
Mediaş Municipal Hospital has an ATI ward where there are six beds, but these are for patients who are not infected with the new coronavirus and are not sufficiently prepared for patients with COVID-19. The director of DSP Sibiu announced that Mediaş Municipal Hospital is preparing to allocate three ATI beds for COVID-19 patients on Monday.
When asked what the chances of survival were for this COVID-19 patient who had not been intubated in an ATI, Gabriel Budescu said the chances were quite small. “85% of patients intubated for ATI go. That is the possibility, which is very small,” he said.
Aggravated epidemiological situation in Sibiu
The COVID-19 cure rate in ATI in Sibiu is, on average, two patients, while ten die.
According to the director of DSP Sibiu, the ATI Department of the County Emergency Clinical Hospital has a total of 12 beds for patients infected with the new coronavirus and all are currently occupied. COVID-19 patients who are hospitalized at the County Emergency Clinical Hospital and need to be intubated urgently, as they do not have free space in the ATI Department, are waiting to be transferred to other hospitals in the country, according to prefect Mircea Cretu and the director of the hospital Liliana Coldea.
The epidemiological situation in Sibiu County worsened on Friday, when four cases of children with COVID-19 were reported in the ATI Department of the Children’s Hospital, all with comorbidities and one intubated.
The County Committee for Emergency Situations decided this Friday that in the city of Sibiu the use of a mask becomes mandatory and schools will conduct courses only online, starting on Saturday, for 14 days, after a rate of contagion with the new coronavirus of 3,24 per thousand inhabitants, reports the Prefecture.
Editor: Luana Pavaluca
