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The second wave of the pandemic is fully manifested in Europe, which has become the global hotbed of COVID diseases. Several European countries register new cases of infection every day, even several times more than in Romania, where for a week the record of 3,000 per day has been exceeded. And yet our country ranks among the top in Europe in terms of deaths. Is it the most virulent virus in Romania? Why do so many people die in Romania? Dr. Beatrice Mahler, director of the “Marius Nasta” Institute in Bucharest, believes that the explanations are much more profound and not necessarily related to immediate reality.
“I think we have to look at things a bit more broadly and, on the one hand, look population health problems, the way they are managed, and here we refer to the deficit of health services evenly distributed in Romania, in Life expectancy, which differs a lot if you look at Bucharest or a less developed region of Romania. Therefore, I believe that we have multiple causes, which are not necessarily related to the moment we are in, the care we give to patients, but the problems that patients have, the way they were managed, the way they followed their treatment every day, “Dr. Beatrice Mahler explained to Digi24 on Sunday, the day Romania recorded 53 deaths, including a 4-year-old boy.
Medical personnel with nosocomial infections
Asked if it is also about nosocomial infections, which are not reported by hospitals, the manager of “Nasta” said he is confident that infections are beginning to be reported. “It is extremely important to be transparent and report them from the first moment, in fact the monitoring of nosocomial infections is mandatory to be done daily, and the involvement of the staff should be from the salon nurse to the manager, because otherwise we run the risk of losing our lives due to nosocomial infections“Stressed the manager.
“Certainly the COVID pandemic leads us to a new situation related to nosocomial infections, because we have the greatest impact of nosocomial infections in the patient who arrives at the hospital, but let’s not forget that nosocomial infection is also the infection that can be taken of the patient care staff and during this period we have people who can be declared – I mean at the time of the COVID pandemic – with nosocomial infections associated with the occupation they have, ”said Dr. Beatrice Mahler.
Last month, Beatrice Mahler, manager of the “Marius Nasta” Pneumoftiziology Institute in Bucharest, told Digi24 that three COVID patients admitted to intensive care at the hospital she directs were brought in with nosocomial infections from Brașov County Hospital. respectively from two other hospitals in Bucharest.
Editor: Luana Pavaluca
