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Beatrice Mahler, manager of the “Marius Nasta” Pneumoftiziology Institute in Bucharest, told Digi24 on Friday night that three COVID patients admitted to intensive care at the hospital she directs were brought in with nosocomial infections from the County Hospital of Brașov, respectively from two other hospitals in Bucharest.
“When you have critical patients, who come from various hospitals, who have been hospitalized for other therapies in those units, they usually come loaded with a hospital flora. We currently have three patients who have multiple resistant flora, so we have limited hospitalizations in COVID intensive care, because it is normal to treat the ones we have, clean and then receive other patients, “said Beatrice Mahler. She specified that of the six intensive care places for COVID patients available in the hospital, four are occupied.
The problem of nosocomial infections is a problem faced by all hospitals in the world, but in Romania its proportions became evident with the tragedy of the fire in the “Colectiv” club, when many of the young people who died died not because of the flames but later on the cause of the germs they were infected with in the hospital. Romanian hospitals were later found to avoid reporting these infections.
The COVID intensive care unit in Marius Nasta operates in a new and completely renovated building
“This problem of nosocomial infections is a problem in intensive care units around the world, but it must be reported, because it means patient safety, it means patient care,” said Dr. Beatrice Mahler.
“If we talk about respiratory therapy, the number of nosocomial infections does not increase compared to last year, but if we talk about COVID therapy, here the overload in these beds is very high, because the number of cases that require intensive care, especially in Bucharest, where We have the highest number of infections, it is very high. Also, we have requests for transfers from other intensive care units, because, without false modesty, I mean, we have well-trained specialists, we have equipment and we can offer life expectancy. But we cannot offer this hope to life, if we do not offer conditions “, explained the manager of” Marius Nasta “.
„COVID therapy of Marius nasta it is a new therapy, inaugurated in May, in a new building, completely renovated ”, he stressed. “We test (transferred patients) when they arrive,” said Dr. Mahler.
The manager specified that an epidemiological investigation was initiated in “Marius Nasta”, he sent it to the DSP and the investigation will continue.
“I believe that each manager should assess his own yard and decide what is best to do in each hospital,” added Mahler. The hospitals’ obligation to report, monitor and notify the DSP about nosocomial infections did not end during the pandemic, the manager said. Beatrice Mahler said public health departments keep this registry.
Editor: Luana Păvălucă
