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Coronavirus infections and deaths from COVID-19 have increased dramatically. The number of hospitalized people is also growing. Currently, over 15 are occupied. covid beds, the most for over half a year. In some establishments there is a shortage of places and scheduled receptions are suspended.
- According to the Ministry of Health, 19 people stayed in hospitals due to COVID-15 on Wednesday. 316 patients
- Due to the increase in coronavirus infections, the University Hospital in Krakow has suspended – with few exceptions – scheduled admissions
- A temporary covid hospital has resumed operations in Płock, and will soon be opened in Wrocław
- The Specialist Hospital in Radom may lack beds for non-covid patients
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Cracow. The University Hospital has suspended scheduled admissions
Due to the epidemic situation and the greater demand for covid beds, the University Hospital in Krakow suspended scheduled admissions to the wards from Tuesday until further notice. This does not apply to cancer patients and stroke patients.
– We regret to inform you that due to the epidemic situation and the resulting need to provide a sufficient number of covid places in the region, we are forced to suspend scheduled admissions on 16.11/XNUMX. br. until further notice. Please check the messages on the hospital’s website on an ongoing basis, the facility said. The decision of the hospital authorities does not apply to cancer patients and stroke patients.
Specialist clinics work normally, but – as the spokeswoman of the hospital Maria Włodkowska pointed out – if there are more covid patients, the clinics will also have to limit their activities due to the staffing needs.
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The University Hospital in Krakow has 110 covid beds, nine are available. Covid patients are taken to a temporary hospital at ul. Kopernika and at the covid ward at ul. Jakubowski.
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According to the data of the voivodeship office, there are 1 jobs in the entire region. 546 beds for COVID-19 patients, of which 1 thousand. 122 are occupied. 97 out of 118 respirators are in use.
According to the announcements of the Małopolska Voivode, by November 19, the bed base will increase by 808 beds, including 61 for respirators. Ultimately, it is to be 2 thousand. 277 beds.
Płock. Mostly unvaccinated in the hospital
In the temporary hospital in Płock, which is a branch of the Provincial Complex Hospital (WSzZ), which resumed operations on Monday, only two out of 28 beds for COVID-19 patients were available on Tuesday. The facility anticipates that it will be necessary to start up another module, ie another 28 beds and parts of the ICU. Staff is being recruited.
The temporary hospital in Płock operated from the beginning of December 2020 until the end of May this year, when it passed into a passive state by the decision of the Ministry of Health. Last week, the Ministry of Health decided to restart it in an identical formula. According to this decision, 28 beds were prepared there, and the first patients were admitted in the morning of November 15.
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– We have 26 COVID-19 patients. So there are two beds available – said the head of the temporary hospital Marek Kiełczewski on Tuesday morning. In his opinion, in the near future it will be necessary to launch another module there, i.e. another 28 beds, as well as parts of the ICU and respirator stations.
– This morning there was a meeting of all the heads of the departments of the provincial hospital. There is a problem of the number of patients who come there with an infection and require hospitalization for COVID-19. The second important consideration is the number of patients requiring ventilators. I think that we will urgently ask for the possibility of setting up both general and ventilated beds in our temporary hospital, said Kiełczewski.
He explained that out of 26 patients with COVID-19 who stayed in this facility on Tuesday morning, 10 were sent there from other departments of the Provincial Complex Hospital, and the rest from various parts of Mazovia. According to him, those treated for COVID-19 in a temporary hospital in Płock are mostly people aged 70 and older, but they are also younger, with women predominating. The oldest patient staying there was born in 1934, and the youngest in 1986.
– Patients come to us in a much worse clinical condition than it was during the previous wave. It is difficult to say what it results from. As a rule, these are people who are unvaccinated against COVID-19. Unfortunately. These people cannot say why they did not get vaccinated. When asked about it, they keep their heads down – emphasized the head of the temporary hospital.
This facility is still recruiting medical personnel through the WSzZ.
– I tried to have doctors with experience working in a temporary hospital here, at least at the beginning. And they are. Fortunately, some of the people who previously worked for us responded positively, but the situation is difficult – said Kiełczewski. He admitted that due to the current situation, in addition to managing the facility, he also deals with the treatment of COVID-19 patients on a daily basis as a doctor.
– I change into covid clothes, visit patients at their beds, examine them and prescribe treatment. This is the need, he added.
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People are looking for work in this facility, among others, general medicine doctors, internists and pulmonologists.
– But we are actually accepting all the doctors who take up the fight against covid, because this season is really tough when it comes to the condition of patients. The problem is the question of on-call time, i.e. how much time doctors are able to spend on working in our facility. There are doctors who declare work on Saturdays and Sundays, and that is less of a problem. The cast is bigger in the middle of the week – said Kiełczewski.
Radom. There may be a shortage of beds in hospitals
Patients infected with the coronavirus are present in almost every department of the Radom Specialist Hospital. According to the management, there may soon be a shortage of beds for patients suffering from other diseases.
Director of the Radom Specialist Hospital (RSS) Marek Pacyna announced that on Tuesday at the facility at ul. Tochterman, there were a total of 463 patients, of which 134 were infected with the SARS-CoV-2 virus.
– We have COVID-19 in almost all hospital wards – noted the director. – It’s getting harder and harder. Not only in our hospital, but in all hospitals in the country. There are more and more people infected with COVID-19, and there is a shortage of beds for patients who are not infected with the coronavirus – noted the head of the hospital in Radom.
On Tuesday, at the clinic at ul. Tochterman, there were 19 people in the ICU for COVID-18 patients, 24 infected with coronavirus in the observation and infectious ward, eight in the internal department, seven in gynecology, two in general surgery, three in nephrology, two in urology, neonatology – three, regular ICU – one and in the children’s room – two.
In addition – as Pacyna emphasized – another 12 patients are waiting in the hospital emergency department for the results of coronavirus tests and vacancies in individual departments.
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Doctors from the hospital in Radom also drew attention to the increasing number of newborns infected with the coronavirus.
– Mothers must remember that they can infect their baby during pregnancy. Unfortunately, there are cases when we find the presence of a virus in a newborn’s body after delivery – emphasized Jacek Nita, head of the gynecology and obstetrics department in RSS. According to the obstetrician, newborns are at risk mainly because their mothers do not want to be vaccinated.
Magdalena Firlej, head of the neonatology department, is of a similar opinion. The doctor informed that in the hospital at ul. Tochterman, there are three newborns who are positive for COVID-19, born to mothers infected with coronavirus. One of these children is very ill and is in the ICU.
The most disturbing – according to the doctor – are the cases of children who return to hospital with COVID and severe pneumonia a dozen or so days after birth.
– The responsibility for these infections is borne by the immediate environment of these children, i.e. parents and the immediate family who are not vaccinated – noted Firlej. She added that the only form of protecting the youngest children from the disease is the so-called cocoon method, i.e. vaccinating people from the immediate vicinity of the newborn.
Wroclaw. The Provisional Hospital is launched
56 beds will be launched in the first stage at the Temporary Hospital at ul. Rakietowa in Wrocław, managed by the University Clinical Hospital in Wrocław. The facility will start operating on Thursday, November 18, according to a press release.
«Created in March this year. The hospital resumes its operation after a break of several months, resulting from the decline in the number of COVID-19 cases. With the intensifying wave of the pandemic, the need for additional medical support for patients from the region appears again“- it was written in a release sent to PAP by the press services of the University Teaching Hospital in Wrocław.
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The first patients are scheduled to be admitted on Thursday at 15. Ultimately, the facility will be able to provide care to 400 patients with confirmed SARS-CoV-2 infection. As in the previous wave of the pandemic, more beds will be made available gradually as needed.
The hospital is equipped with 20 stations for mechanical ventilation, including high flow oxygen therapy in patients with respiratory failure. There is also a diagnostic imaging department, equipped with an X-ray, ultrasound and a computer tomograph.
In the first stage of the hospital’s reopening, patients will be looked after by 13 doctors, 14 nurses, six paramedics, and four medical carers. The staff also includes a psychologist, radiologist, rehabilitation specialists and eight volunteers from the Medical University of Wroclaw.
“Staff is being recruited for this facility in case more patients are needed. Currently, the staff of the Temporary Hospital consists of seconded USK employees at ul. Borowska ”- it was written in the press release.
Słupsk. Isolation ward for covid patients
From Wednesday at the Provincial Specialist Hospital of Janusz Korczak in Słupsk, there is a second isolation ward for people infected with COVID-19. The decision to increase the number of beds by 25 for covid patients in the hospital in Słupsk was issued by the Pomeranian Voivode.
According to Monika Zacharzewska-Tomasik from the promotion department of the facility, its effect is to open a second isolation ward for infected patients from November 17. The facility currently has 47 beds for COVID-19 patients.
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– This situation is forced by the rapidly increasing number of patients. The first 18-bed ward is completely full. Actually, four beds with ventilators for patients with COVID-19 in the Department of Anaesthesiology and Intensive Therapy are also occupied all the time – said the president of the board of the Provincial Specialist Hospital. Janusz Korczak in Słupsk Andrzej Sapiński.
The second isolation unit operates in a separate part of the rehabilitation unit.
– This is once again a big logistical difficulty for us, because we need to find places for beds for seriously ill patients with COVID, and at the same time we try to make the changes as little as possible to patients who should be treated during rehabilitation – noted the quoted vice-president of the Słupsk hospital board Anetta Barna -Feszak.
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The first isolation ward was launched on November 8 and took up part of the pediatric ward space. The facility was prepared for this because in the spring, due to the decreasing number of covid patients, it did not close, but only suspended the activity of the isolation ward.
As Zacharzewska-Tomasik reported on Wednesday, the management board of the hospital in Słupsk and the doctors working there appeal to those authorized to take the COVID-19 preparation to report for vaccinations. She noted that the majority of hospitalized covid patients are unvaccinated.
According to the data published on the website of the Pomeranian Voivodship Office in Gdańsk, 650 beds out of 19 beds intended for patients with COVID-464 in Pomeranian hospitals are used. Of the 53 ventilators, 36 are used by patients.
Authors: Beata Kołodziej / Ilona Pecka / ing / agz / bko / joz / mb / ilp / PAP
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