influenza, but the leadership of the competent ministry sees no problem in the management of incidents – the “Battle” for the life of them give 70 people
The red has come the demand for a bed in the Intensive care Unit (ICU) in our country the last time.
As informed by the protothema.gr, on the morning of Wednesday, the waiting list for the ICU in the hospitals of Attica had already 70 patients!
It should be noted, that in accordance with the εντατικολόγους, the number of patients who need hospitalization in the ICU ejected after noon as is the case with the movement of patients in hospitals.
In January of this year the problem with the Intensive has taken on fatal dimensions, with the leadership of the ministry of Health (pp. all of them, minister, deputy, general secretaries are doctors!) however, don’t see any problem in the management of cases needing ICU. The ministry of Health knew that the termination of contracts of nurses and doctors working in the ICU would contract the available beds, and would create a “black hole” in YOU in the midst of an influenza epidemic, but didn’t do anything. Was limited at the beginning of January to announced a tender for 400 contract staff positions of health professionals specifically for the ICU, which, however, still expected…
The sad the waiting list for METH, a negative Greek “first” counts daily at least 50 to 60 patients, while the last two days the number of patients amounted to 70! Strains of EMTS estimate that of these, more than half of them are now patients with complications of influenza A(H1N1).
Data available for other categories of patients such as disabled, heart patients, mrs.., no, but with the situation that has developed it is obvious that the problem is exacerbated, costing human lives. On the basis of epidemiological surveillance of influenza has been known that at least 5 patients with the flu have ended up outside the ICU, waiting to empty a bed for treatment, so one notices how many deaths could encompass every day the waiting list and how many people who were unable to claim their right to healthcare and hospitalization…
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Tragic as the situation in the hospitals: they’re Looking for beds because of the flu…
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