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Former vice president and member of the Presidency of the Liberal Democratic Party, Ivan Andrić, shared with his followers on Twitter his experience during the eleven days he spent in the Kovid hospital in the Belgrade Arena after testing positive for the coronavirus.
Photo: TwitterAndrić had a fever two weeks ago, which, according to him, was not very good, but it “broke” him quite a bit. On the doctor’s recommendation, he donated blood for testing.
– As I hoped it could be a covid, they examined me on Wednesday (because I have asthma, so I belong to the risk group). Due to contagion, my temperature had stopped and I expected to go home in isolation, and there was a scare. Directions to the Arena. Of course, he had doubts about what to do and was trying to convince the doctor that he was fine, who else would go there after all these stories. But the doctor remained persistent, either a sign that he will not take responsibility or the right to medical supervision there because it is risky, Andrić wrote.
He claimed that, after consulting with his fellow doctors, he decided to go to the Arena anyway, which he says will be a big decision. Andrić was admitted to the Arena as patient 45 or 50, while on the day of his departure there were 370 of them.
– Today, if someone asks me, I’m sure that if the doctor says that I don’t have dilemmas, don’t stop going. For the first five or six days, there was no change in me (no temperature, 97-98-99 saturation, no other symptoms). Monday is coming and I hope to go home and do the checkups. The Arena doctor also insists on an X-ray (although the first photo was fine). This is where the initial pneumonia is discovered and I am given additional therapy that lasts until yesterday. The inflammation has receded, I am fine and here I am at home. If he hadn’t been there, I don’t know what would have happened, but he probably would have developed pneumonia and would have come back as a much more serious patient with probably much worse consequences – Andrić pointed out.
He pointed out that kovid 19 is a very insidious disease and that even when it appears to be nothing to a person, it develops and spreads. According to Andrić, just because someone is fine and feeling fine does not mean that they will not have a high fever at night or tomorrow. Therefore, he reiterated that undergoing medical supervision turned out to be a very good decision.
– I saw everything there and of course I am full of impressions, but here are the most important ones: the doctors, nurses and others who work are literally heroes. Multi-hour shifts in spacesuits (no rest, no water, etc.) during which they work non-stop and run non-stop between us. There is almost always a crisis situation: someone has a high temperature, pressure jumps, pulse, saturation drops. Everyone is afraid because they have heard everything and do not know what will happen to them next. And they are there to check, to give therapy, to tell you something – Andrić described.
He added that he saw medical workers collapse from the heat and exertion multiple times, and said he had nothing more to say than “thank you and all parties.” According to Andrić, “conditions in the Arena are fine, whatever they say.”
– If something is wrong, they visit you more often and change therapy as they go. They follow you and make you feel more secure. Of course, it is not ideal because there is congestion (if there are more crisis situations, if there are many people at the reception at this time, etc.). But in general it is so. The other things (food, hygiene, etc.) are as they can be in the collective accommodation, but in general the food is good (military, cooked), the rest is bearable. Patient people, mostly fine. They are of all ages and are mostly older in a more difficult clinical situation. The good thing is that there is solidarity between the people. My impression is that everyone helped those who needed it. From bringing food, water, the titles of nurses, doctors and the like. Of course, at first everyone is scared when they come because they don’t know what to expect, but the nurses, doctors and other patients help them get better: Andrić shared his experience from the covid hospital in the Arena.
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