This week, Prague will be the most endangered, but the light at the end of the tunnel can be seen, says the head of Motol, Ludvík | iROZHLAS
For a week now, the Czech Republic has been bound by stricter anti-epidemic measures. And yet the effect is not yet clear, claiming that the spread of the disease has slowed. The worst moments of the hospital are still waiting, said Minister of Health Blatný on Sunday (for YES). “The wave is moving to Prague, which will be the busiest region this week,” expects Miloslav Ludvík (CSSD), director of the Motol Hospital in Czech Radio Plus.
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However, he assures that the University Hospital in Motol can handle the onslaught: “We still have free capacity. We are a large hospital and we have many hundreds of beds under oxygen. We still have ICU capacity free and we can also expand it. “
I am optimistic, in May we could already be very good at it, believes the director of Motol Ludvík
Ludvík believes that despite the expected culmination of the situation in healthcare, Motol’s applications for the transfer of patients abroad do not apply.
Due to the overall atmosphere, the name of the whole thing is viewed with optimism, thinks the head of the largest medical facility in the Czech Republic.
“People go to hospitals to scare people who are convinced they will die. Without corresponding to their clinical condition. “
He adds: “When you talk to geriatricians, they will say that this continuous scare has a dramatic effect on the health of the oldest population, which is generally very fragile. And this is reflected in the field and perhaps in the higher mortality rate associated with covid. But it can also be the atmosphere when you don’t hear a single word of hope, no light at the end of the tunnel. But I think the light is already clearly visible. “
Ludvík is convinced that May could be a month when we will be very good at it, thanks to vaccinations and sunny weather.
Ludvík of the Moravian-Silesian Region, Ivo Vondrák (YES), agrees with Ludvík on the issue of optimism. “But we must be prepared for the worst. Years of experience with the pandemic have shown me that one can be surprised by developments very quickly, “he admits.
‘More and more people can do it at home’
The reversals in the development of the pandemic are caused by the fact that none of the numbers that the authors of probable development models must pay attention to is 100% reliable, the result is Jan Trnka, head of the Department of Biochemistry and head of the Department of Biomedicine at Charles University. Centers for modeling biological and social processes.
“Everyone has some uncertainty – the number of new cases applies to how much is tested, when we look at the numbers of new hospitalizations, there again depends on the capacity of hospitals,” Trnka finds out.
Even deaths that were once considered a really tough number do not provide security today. “More and more people are dying at home precisely without their deaths being reported in covid’s statistics, and they only appear in so-called supernatural deaths.”
Dušek: Let’s think about in weeks
Special guests
- Ladislav Dušek, Director of the Institute of Health Information and Statistics
- Miloslav Ludvík, director of the Motol University Hospital, CSSD
- Jan Trnka, Head of the Department of Biochemistry and Head of the Department of Biomedical Sciences of the 3rd Faculty of Medicine, Charles University, Member of the research team of the Center for Modeling Biological and Social Processes
- Ivo Vondrák, Governor of the Moravian – Silesian Region, YES
As for the results of the strict measures set by the government, we still have to wait for them, says the director of the Institute of Health Information and Statistics Ladislav Dušek, although a positive trend is already visible.
“We have to think for weeks, not days. It will take at least another ten days for the declining trend to begin. And then another ten to see it more significantly. “
Dušek also tries to see a half-full glass, but admits that there is still one significant risk factor in the spread of covid-19: “We register very high numbers of newly infected, potentially vulnerable patients of very old age every day.”
According to him, this is also one of the reasons why we have to count on high patient admissions to hospitals in the coming days.
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