Hospitals in Prague do not yet limit non – acute care, but have banned visits Health News Pražská Drbna
Hospitals in Prague do not limit non-acute care yet. But many banned visits. The number of hospitalized people with covid-19 in Prague’s medical facilities is further increasing. It follows from the information provided to inform the hospital on request. According to data from the Ministry of Health, the number of beds in hospitals in Prague is fully filled in common infectious wards with the possibility of pulmonary ventilation.
According to the Ministry of Health, 4,890 hospitalized with coronavirus were in hospitals in the country on Friday. 724 of them were in a difficult state.
“We have not yet reached the absolute limitations of non-acute care, but we are considering this option. spokesman for Thomayer University Hospital (FTN) Petr Šulek.
According to the spokesman, they have not yet agreed to reduce non-acute care Jitka Zinke in the Central Military Hospital (ÚVN) and according to the spokeswoman Marie Heřmánková or in the General University Hospital (VFN). “However, we still monitor the situation and the management of individual clinics (on the limitation of elective care) decides according to the current situation,” said Heřmánková.
The reason for these considerations is exactly the numbers hospitalized with covid-19. According to Sulek, about hundreds of them are currently being treated at FTN, most of whom have not been vaccinated against the disease. There are now about 50 people with coronavirus in the VFN, and there are twenty patients with covid at the ÚVN. The University Hospital in Motol, which is the largest Czech hospital, housed 78 people with a covid on Friday. 29 of them were in severe and moderate condition, as reported by the hospital on social networks. According to information on the hospital’s twitter, there were 82 patients with covid in the Bulovka University Hospital on Thursday.
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According to current data from the Ministry of Health, the capacity of beds in hospitals in Prague in common infection wards with the possibility of pulmonary ventilation is completely filled. Only beds in other wards adapted for patients with covid-19 are available. Standard beds with oxygen are 15 percent of the total number of 3139 available. The percentage occupancy of beds with oxygen in infectious compartments is similar. In contrast, there are plenty of devices that support patients’ vital signs, such as artificial lung ventilation (UPV) or ECMO, which cleanse the blood. For example, in VFN, according to Heřmánková, eight out of a total of 487 beds with oxygen are available in standard wards. A total of 66 UPV and ECMO devices are available to the hospital. Four ECMOs and four UPV devices are currently unoccupied.
Many hospitals have banned visits due to possible numbers of people infected with coronavirus. From Tuesday, visits to some wards in Motol and the František Hospital are prohibited. At the beginning of November, all inpatient departments of Na Homolce Hospital and the VFN acute inpatient care facility were closed to visitors. FTN has been banned from visiting since the end of October. Some workplaces have an exception to the ban, for example, visiting patients in the terminal stadium of the disease.