The number of medics infected with covid is growing in Prague. Work quarantine will solve possible problems Health News Pražská Drbna
The number of medics infected with covid-19 is growing, most of them in Prague. This is according to data provided to deputies this week by Ladislav Dušek, director of the Institute of Health Information and Statistics (ÚZIS). However, the operation of Prague hospitals does not limit this in any way, thanks to the small number of patients with covid-19 and the work quarantine. However, the devices are also preparing for possible deterioration.
Concerns about the worsening situation
“The decline of the newly diagnosed has stopped. It’s growing, but not dramatically yet, ” he said Dušek. Infections in employees of residential social services facilities also develop in a similar way. “This is a highly vaccinated population, which is one of the reasonsHe added. But he fears it will get worse.
Unvaccinated inpatient health care providers and residential social care workers have been required to take an antigen test once a week since November. But it cannot be a self-test, the sample must be taken by a professional. The government decided last week that from Monday it applies to employees of all medical facilities, including outpatient facilities. The exception for the vaccinated and those who have suffered covid-19 in the last six months, however, has remained.
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Omicron hit Prague
According to the data, there were about 3,300 positively tested health professionals in the Czech Republic on Tuesday, of which more than 1,000 were in Prague. In the other worst regions – Central Bohemia, South Moravia and Moravia-Silesia, less than a third are infected. Other health professionals must be quarantined due to risk contact or stay at home with the child in quarantine or isolation. According to Dušek, Prague is affected by the new omicron variant earlier than the rest of the country, which is why the increments of newly infected ones are currently the highest.
For example, the Motol University Hospital has 140 employees in isolation, according to spokeswoman Pavlína Danková, which, according to her, is no problem with 6,500 employees. A similar number is also missing in the Bulovka University Hospital.
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hospital Running and working quarantine
“This does not jeopardize the operation of the hospital at the moment, both because the hospital staff falls under the announced exemption, which allows work under strict hygienic conditions during quarantine, and also because the number of infected hospitalized patients continues to decline,Said a hospital spokeswoman Eva Libigerová. On Friday the hospital had 34 of them, in Motol there were 25 of them.
The General University Hospital in Prague has 112 sick employees and another 61 in quarantine, about half of whom came from the press department in the last week, according to Martina Voráčková. The local hospital also wants to use work quarantine if the provision of health services is endangered. “The locally competent hygienic station will be informed and it will be proposed for specific asymptomatic workers to establish such quarantine measures that will enable the work to be performed,” she explained.
According to spokesman Petr Sulek, Thomayer University Hospital has about 40 infected paramedics with covid-19 in isolation and another 20 in quarantine. There are 42 patients with covid-19.
“This number shows a new trend, in that the number of sick health professionals and patients is starting to catch up. This is the opposite of what we experienced in previous coronavirus waves, when the disease was much higher in patients than in our healthcare professionals. “ said Sulka. To aggravate the situation, the hospital has, according to information, developed contingency plans tested in previous waves of the epidemic, which include changes in work organization or staff assistance between workplaces.
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