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Patients with other serious conditions, such as cancer patients, have been severely affected by measures taken in hospitals that do not treat COVID-19.
The number of hospitalizations and surgeries has been cut in half and, in many cases, treatment is delayed. In recent months, support has come from non-governmental organizations that have sent specialists home, made external or remote consultations.
Immediately after the introduction of the state of emergency, hospitals treating patients with cancer diseases had to drastically reduce their capacity. For example, in the department of surgery at the Fundeni Oncology Institute, about 30 patients are hospitalized, compared to 70 who were treated in the same period last year.
Simion Laurențiu, Head of the Department of Surgery, Bucharest Cancer Institute: “From where we did about three operations per room and in the three rooms, that meant 9 operations per day, now we can do a maximum of two operations per room, so a maximum of 6 per day, in the best of cases”
According to a recent study, hospitalizations of cancer patients have been reduced by more than 50% in all medical units in the country. For example, the emergency hospitals in Cluj and Iasi have reduced their activity by up to 79%.
Hope for these cancer patients comes from non-governmental organizations. Through the #facemloc campaign and for them, the Casa Speranţei Hospice Foundation has treated more than 4 thousand patients in recent months. Medical teams carried out home visits, outpatient consultations or hospitalizations in the palliative care centers in Brasov and Bucharest.
Erika Posztas, patient: “We don’t pay anything and you see that in other hospitals when you go we don’t have as much money to pay for all the tests, because the disease is not waiting.”
Cerasela Petrescu, physician: “There are patients who are afraid of the covid, there are patients who are afraid of what is going to happen. They see themselves without any emotional support. “
Mirela Nemțanu, Executive Director of HOSPICE Casa Speranței: Precisely because there is this pressure from the health system, we have made a new call to make room for them, to make room for other patients, for non-covid patients, for incurable patients, we urge anyone who seeks not help ”.
Also for cancer patients, the “Asociaţia Sus inima” offers free accommodation in Bucharest to patients undergoing radiotherapy. Most of them come from hundreds of kilometers away because in Romania there is 1 radiotherapy device in 4 counties.
The association aims to open these types of houses throughout the country.
