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Ambulances with patients wait for two hours at hospitals
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The city is sorely lacking hospital beds for critically ill patients with coronavirus infection.
Patients with a severe form of coronavirus in Ivano-Frankivsk were forced to wait for hospitalization in ambulances for two hours. The mayor of the city Ruslan Martsinkiv told about this on the air of the West Pole radio station.
“Yesterday there was a real situation when ambulances at Mateyki (city clinical hospital No. 1, which accepts COVID patients, – ed.) Stood and waited for a place with moderate and severe patients to be vacated. People waited for two hours in the ambulance to be hospitalized. its place, “- said Martsinkiv.
He also noted that COVID hospitals are forced to discharge patients with a milder form of the disease in order to provide assistance to those who need immediate oxygen therapy and constant medical supervision.
“I have repeatedly appealed to the regional authorities, the Cabinet of Ministers, with a request to deploy additional beds in regional medical institutions. I no longer believe that there will be any shifts in this direction,” Martsinkiv said.
According to him, among the problematic issues in the fight against coronavirus remains the additional payment to doctors, which is now carried out by the local authorities. The NSZU for additional payments in January was sent to doctors working with patients with coronavirus, 50% of the salary, in February – only 30%.
“We cannot only overcome the epidemic on our own. Roads are good, but when there are human lives, it can be better to redirect funds to them … It cannot be like it was a few days ago, when a woman was taken to Zabolotov, there there was no room, then to Kolomyia, where they also refused, and when the woman was taken to Kalush, she, unfortunately, died, “the mayor of Frankivsk is convinced.
Martsinkiv said that the city government had previously deployed 162 beds in the city’s ancestral center, and now plans to deploy another 120 in the polyclinic on Dolgaya Street – two floors will be allocated in an eight-story building for COVID patients.
It was previously reported that in Ivano-Frankivsk, all COVID hospitals are overcrowded, people lie in the corridors. Patients with COVID were put on the beds, which were intended for patients with other diseases.
And on the eve it became known that new COVID hospital deployed in the city… It will be created on the basis of the city polyclinic №2.
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