[ad_1]
The president of the Union of Doctors and Pharmacists of Serbia, Rade Panic, affirms that the organization has been warning for six years that Serbia is not capable of responding to a major challenge, such as a pandemic, and that the Ministry of Health should have reacted to the first news of a potential health crisis. .
Photo: FoNet / Nenad DjordjevicHe said in Utisak Nedelja that the corresponding ministry should have reviewed the capacities of the health system in the first announcements of the pandemic and taken the measures and acquisitions accordingly.
“At the beginning of the crisis, we bought (a lot of) respirators. That was crazy and completely wrong, we should have invested in prevention, and not treatment (at the time),” said Panić.
He also stated that he attended the fair after a 24-hour shift in Kovid’s intensive care unit, which, according to his estimation, indicates the seriousness of the situation, considering his union ties.
“They knew that I was going to tell everything I would see there, but before the third wave (epidemic) I reported as the only one from the anesthesia service in Kraljevo … Other doctors do not speak or cannot speak (about the situation in the covid system ), they are blackmailed or scared, “said Panic.
Panic said he feared that the health crisis would last until April, as well as that the epidemic was slowing down the organization of society, that is, that the course of the infection would depend on the behavior of the majority.
The virologist and microbiologist Milanko Shekler compared the use or not of protective masks with respect for traffic regulations.
“In vain, he respects the regulations, when driving in the opposite direction,” said Shekler, referring to people who do not respect the measures of wearing protective masks in situations where an infection can occur.
He added that in the contact of a person infected with the corona virus who does not wear a mask and a healthy person with a mask, the latter has about a 20 percent chance of being really protected.
“If you (as COVID-19 patients) wear a mask and I, as a healthy person, no, the probability of being protected is 80 percent. If we both wear masks, the protection is almost 99 percent.” said Sheckler, who further pointed out that corona virus infection depends on a host of factors other than wearing protective gear.
Support us by being a member of the Danas Readers Club
In the age of widespread tabloidization, sensationalism, and media commercialization, we have been insisting on the principles of professional and ethical journalism for more than two decades. They banned us and called us, no government was kind to criticism, but nothing stopped us from informing them objectively every day. That is why we want to trust you.
Membership in the Danas Book Club for 799 dinars per month you help us stay independent and consistent with the journalism we believe in, and you receive a PDF of tomorrow’s issue of Danas via email every night.
Related texts:
