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According to Ukraine’s Health Minister Maxim Stepanov, after the introduction of restrictions against the epidemic, the country will not postpone hospitalizations and operations if it threatens people’s lives and health.
The ban introduced in Ukraine on hospitalizations and planned operations due to the COVID-19 epidemic does not apply to all cases. This was announced in a briefing on November 11 by Health Minister Maxim Stepanov, reports the GORDON correspondent.
“Any operation, any hospitalization, if its delay may pose a threat to your health, it cannot be postponed, you will be hospitalized on time, operated on time, even though it is a planned operation,” he said.
According to the head of the Ministry of Health, we are talking, in particular, about heart attacks and strokes, complications during pregnancy and childbirth, the provision of medical care to newborns, cancer patients, as well as work from national-level medical institutions that provide highly specialized care (eg “Okhmatdet”).
Maksimov stressed that during the coronavirus epidemic, “other diseases did not take vacations.”
In Ukraine, hospitalizations and scheduled operations have been banned from November 9. The Deputy Minister of Health, Chief Medical Officer of the State of Ukraine, Viktor Lyashko, explained that, in this regard, hospitals exclusively accept urgent patients (in urgent cases) and patients with coronavirus.
As of November 11, 489,808 cases of coronavirus infection were registered in Ukraine, of which 10,611, on the last day. 8,947 COVID-19 patients have died, 221,459 people have recovered.
According to Stepanov, more than 28.5 thousand patients are in hospitals to fight the coronavirus infection.
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