“When we fill the service, we will ask Prague for help.” Hospitals in South Moravia are overloaded
Hospitals in southern Moravia are on the verge of capacity due to the ever-growing coronavirus epidemic. Some have already had to stop the planned interventions, Kyjov Hospital has already declared a state of mass disability. And according to the advantage of the anesthesiology and resuscitation clinic at the University Hospital at St. Anne’s in Brno, Vladimír Šrámek, other hospitals will follow within seven days. “There are 110 patients with covid in our hospital, we have a heavy load of mainly intensive care,” he describes.
The situation is not better in other regions of Moravia. According to Šrámek, what could help? “If the existing measures are tightened and adhered to, and if the help of qualified as well as unskilled staff comes to the hospital, it could solve it,” he believes.
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“Since 1620, the Reformation and the Counter-Reformation, we have been accustomed to disobeying and confusing it with the word freedom. At this point, it is necessary to listen to those who say that it is necessary to show up, be vaccinated and follow the current rules. It’s annoying, it annoys us all, but we need to get stuck. I’ve never heard of anyone getting a tetanus in their lives. I do not understand why, so if to get a vaccination against coronavirus, which carries minimal risks, “appeals Vladimír Šrámek.
How does the director of another of the Moravian hospitals, which is on the edge of its capacities, evaluate the situation? Also listen to the interview with the director of the hospital in Valašské Meziříčí Milan Leckéšim.