Thessaloniki: Psychiatrists and radiologists “train” for Covid clinics
The situation in the hospitals of Thessaloniki is out of control from the onset of the fourth wave of the coronavirus pandemic, with the doctors of all the courses being prepared for fast training, in case they have to join the front line of the battle with covid-19.
In this context, as he states thesstoday.gr, microbiologists, radiologists and even psychiatrists are even trained in “safe intubation of patients”.
The president of the Association of Hospital Doctors of Thessaloniki (ENITH), Daphne Katsimba in her statements to thesstoday.gr stressed that the laboratory doctors in Papageorgiou, Papanikolaou, Ippokratio and AHEPA have already moved to the “covid clinics” .
“Dermatologists and ophthalmologists have been transferred to Papageorgiou in the covid clinics. Also, for the past two months, Papanikolaou psychiatrists have been transferred to the covid clinics of the hospital. The same happens in Ippokratio, in AHEPA and everywhere “, stressed Mrs. Katsimba, pointing out that especially in Papanikolaou, the director of psychiatry made a personal complaint because the patients are left unattended, resulting in a number of identified phenomena of domestic violence, as well as cases of patients who show aggressive and suicidal tendencies.
“It is dangerous for a psychiatrist to move and enter a covid clinic. “It’s as if the psychiatric patients – but also the others around them who suffer because they have violent behavior, even criminal or suicidal tendencies – are for throwing away,” she added.
RIA Commander: “We will not force psychiatrists to do intubation”
From the side of the commander of the 4th RAE, Dimitris Tsalikakis clarified that the “helping hand” of doctors of other specialties is not related to the intubation of patients. “We will not force psychiatrists to do intubation, but they will be able to help in various positions, such as how to get gas or oxygen from a patient,” said Mr. Tsalikakis.
However, Daphne Katsimba, refuting the statements of the commander of the 4th RAE, pointed out the fact that many doctors of other specialties have resigned because she refers to covid clinics, pointing out that to get a specialty requires five years of training and not fast courses.
“Does fast-track education mean that the ophthalmologist will become a physician when he wants five or six years for his specialty?” others who have been taken to clinics that can not cope, the staff is dramatically reduced for this reason “, she stressed, adding that” in the Emergency Departments (ICUs) of Finikas they are training and trying to save people . which were unrelated to intubation “.
As Mrs. The transfer of doctors from various departments to covid clinics “does not mean that they will monitor the safety of patients with coronavirus”, as he claims “it can not offer medical help that can be provided by a physician, infectious disease specialist or pulmonologist”.
For her, the problem with the huge gaps in the hospitals is solved only with staff recruitment and not with the fast-paced courses. “Currently we have 35,000 organic positions for all NSS staff, more than 6.00 doctors and no recruitments are made. “Around 2,500 people have submitted papers, which we must be careful about,” he said.
The employees of AHEPA are concerned
The employees of the AHEPA hospital in Thessaloniki are particularly concerned as they report that, due to the significant shortages, specialties such as psychiatrists, microbiologists or radiologists will join the front line in the fight against the pandemic.
This concern started in mid-September when they were informed that, by order of the administration of the 4th RAE, “fast-paced seminars” are being held for hospital doctors of other specialties in regional hospitals in Northern Greece.
The specific letter for the fast training was sent to the commanders of the hospitals of Serres, Drama, Xanthi and Komotini, provoking the reactions of the employees, who with successive announcements pointed out that “with a three-hour training in problems we can not cover safety. cases and inpatients “.
And with the blockade in the hospitals “tightening” from the pressure it receives due to the increased numbers of intubated, in various departments of AHEPA employees (psychiatric, microbiological, radiological, etc.) there is an uproar for their impending burden with the incidents. , as they say they are called to make critical decisions in a fiery field that have not specialized and have not done with intubation patients.
The president of the Workers’ Union of AHEPA, Charalambos Koroxenos stressed that “the commander of the 4th RAE after information I have from the psychiatric clinic put these doctors to do a month of rapid training for safe intubation of patients.”
On the other hand, the commander of the 4th RAE, Dimitris Tsalikakis, added that intubation is a medical procedure, it is the code “blue”, it has nothing to do with imperative. It’s part of doctors’ lifelong learning curve, where everyone has to learn some things. “But not psychiatrists, they will learn the basic specialties, such as the pathological and surgical specialties.”
Dimitris Tsalikakis also claims that this plan, which has already been activated in the four regional hospitals, has nothing to do with covid incidents. “It’s wrong to connect. “It’s supposed that all doctors have done intubation at some point – either in their school or in surgeries, whether they are pulmonologists or otolaryngologists – but intubation does not mean that we are replacing, for example, anesthesiologists,” said the commander of the 4th RAE.
As Mr. Tsalikakis continues, “normally everyone in the hospital should know a few things, in the context of general emergency training and does not need to be covid”, while regarding AHEPA he stressed that “we do not have anything planned at the moment nor moment in the near future “. “Psychiatrists, on the other hand, can help with various things, such as how to get air or oxygen from a patient,” he said.
AHEPA Commander: “Intubation is not cooking”
The commander of AHEPA Panagiotis Panteliadis claims through thesstoday.gr that so far “there is no information and no suggestion on the issue of rapid education”. As he characteristically stated “the intubation is not cooking, there are no reports or suggestions for fast-paced courses”, while he pointed out that the seminars were held in special hospitals of the Region in order to be able to receive some incidents. It was not to cover the units and in no case does it concern AHEPA “.
The director of the ICU at AHEPA, Eleni Geka, stated in her statements that she has not been informed about upcoming courses for doctors of other specialties in order to cope with covid cases. In fact, he noted that a seminar can help the employee understand the needs of the patient, however, as he argues, “one can not become an expert with one or a month of seminars.”
Source: Thesstoday.gr