The Ministry has designated hospitals in Prague that the emergency medical service must accept
Updates: 12/8/2021 11:56 AM
Released: 8.12.2021, 11:24
Prague – The Ministry of Health has set up an emergency hospital for Prague every day, which will accept patients brought by ambulances, which they refuse elsewhere. This was stated by the resigned Minister of Health Adam Vojtěch (for YES) at the Metropolitan Medical Congress. The problem of refusing to bring in patients to provide an ambulance service for several years. At present, medical facilities mainly supply patients with covid-19.
According to the minister, the distribution of patients is now governed by the national intensive care unit. “The minimum daily capacity is set for individual facilities. The announcement of stop conditions is governed by strict rules,” said Vojtěch. Stop states of the hospital indicate such a fullness of the patient that no more can be admitted.
According to Vojtěch, there will be so-called emergency hospitals in the event that there is no room for patients in a regular catchment hospital. “For each day of the week and weekend, there will be one to which the overhang of patients who could not accept the target hospital will be directed,” he added.
There are seven state hospitals in Prague, six are established by the Ministry of Health and one by the Ministry of Defense. Other facilities are private, church or city. Mayor Zdeněk Hřib (Pirates) welcomed the solution of accepting patients from ambulances. “These are problems that have been but have not been solved for a long time. We will also have to deal with the staffing of emergency medical services,” he said. Problems with the placement of patients were solved by the Prague ambulance service in 2014, for example.
Now it is according to data on hospital care capacities in Prague, 118 standard beds, 51 infectious beds with the possibility of administering oxygen and 44 with artificial lung ventilation are available for patients with covid. Compared to other regions, Prague has high numbers of beds, but patients with the most serious complications in other regions are treated there in specialized centers. In recent weeks, Prague hospitals have received people living with covid-19, for example from the Ústí nad Labem region or Brno.
During the inspections of compliance with the measures against the spread of covid, the Prague hygienists imposed fines of 3.72 million crowns by the end of October 1306. For the whole of last year, it was 854 fines for 3.04 million crowns. The director of the Prague hygiene station, Zdeňka Jágrová, said this at the congress. Since the beginning of the epidemic, more than 260,000 people have been infected with the covid in the capital. According to Jágrová, hygienists ordered about 220,000 quarantines, providers 335,000 risky contacts and issued over 215,600 electronic applications.
Jágrová responded to the criticism that hygienists face from the public. “We are accused of giving few fines,” she said. According to her, the Prague hygiene station has about 200 employees who, in addition to the sick, have to deal with a common agenda, such as noise, other infectious diseases, or have to comment on all projects in the construction process.
According to Jágrová, hygienists also pay for the number of imperfections that the pandemic law has. “No civilized country conducts public health testing, there are some call centers everywhere, they have to have an impact on their pandemic laws,” she said. According to her, the Czech Republic does not have that, and hygienists thus find themselves in situations where they cannot act in accordance with the law. Hygienists often communicate quarantine or isolation decisions over the phone, which the court says is illegal.
According to Jágrová, this year the hygienists received a large request for information under Act 106. While in previous years they received about a hundred requests a year, this year they received 1658. According to her, the increase is related to the Golden Pin initiative of singer Daniel Landy. He called on people to overwhelm regional health stations in protest against the measures against the 19-covis.
According to the director of the Institute of Health Information and Statistics Ladislav Dušek, over 15,500 patients with covid passed through Prague hospitals during the entire epidemic, and about 3,800 of them needed intensive care.
Congress speakers:
Zdeněk Hřib, mayor of hl. m of Prague
Milena Johnová, Councilor m of Prague for social policy and healthcare
Martin Ježek, director of the health department of the City of Prague and vaccination coordinator
Ladislav Dušek, Director of the Institute of Health Information and Statistics
Petr Kolouch, Director of the Medical Rescue Service of the Capital City of Prague m of Prague
Pavel Rusý, Director of the Medical Rescue Service of the Central Bohemian Region
Rastislav Maďar, Dean of the Faculty of Medicine, OU, epidemiologist
Bohumil Seifert, Head of the Institute of General Medicine, First Faculty of Medicine, Charles University
and more
moderated by: Pavla Charvátová
Program you will find HERE