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In Kharkiv, during the last day, a record number of new coronavirus cases was revealed: 746. The region again topped the anti-level rating by the number of patients. COVID-19 in Ukraine.
Anesthesiologist Vladimir Korsunov spoke about the difficult situation at the Kharkiv Infectious Diseases Hospital.
“Friday morning, 8 deaths a day, 26 mechanically ventilated patients. There are only 12 beds in intensive care.
Saturday. Ambulance line with “blue” patients. They opened the third floor of the children’s infectious disease hospital to provide oxygen. We placed the fifteenth ventilator outside the intensive care unit …
Sunday. There are more than 300 patients in the hospital. In the intensive care unit, as always 12. Outside the intensive care unit, 15 patients are on mechanical ventilation, one of them is intubated on a shielded bed right in the ward after an hour of intensive care – a woman has only 39 years … Another pulmonary embolism in the intensive care unit, 63, rescued, on the pipe and the ventilator, in the morning he regained consciousness “, – said the doctor.
He added that oxygen systems are overloaded, barrels and main pipes are covered in ice, although it is still hot outside.
“The first frosts can cause the roads to freeze and the oxygen supply to cease. The Lord took care of us in warm October, but we did not take advantage of that. During my life in medicine (since 1984) and I work in intensive care since 1991, I did not I had seen such a disaster. “, – said Vladimir Korsunov.
Remember that the medical director urged Ukrainians to get vaccinated against influenza to avoid a combination with COVID-19.
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