There are eight soldiers in Vsetín and Valašské Meziříčí, others will join hospitals in Prostějov, Šternberk and Přerov and in a home for the elderly Komárov u Šternberka. Soldiers will help with patient positioning, assist with hygiene or food collection. But also with cleaning, or operation at the reception.
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At the Vsetín Hospital, they welcome their presence, due to the sharp increase in the number of patients, due to which they now had to open a second covid station and change the organization of inpatient care. Hernia, varicose veins and endoprosthetic operations planned since October are limited here. “Now we have practically stopped the planned operation,” admitted Martin Metelka, Deputy Minister for Medical Care at Vsetín Hospital. As of Friday, the hospital had 42 covid patients, eight of whom were in serious intensive care.
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“Five soldiers will help us from Monday. Four of them in the covid departments and one in the collection center. They should help for a fortnight, “Radka Benešová, a spokeswoman for the Vsetín Hospital, told Práva.
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Six soldiers will head to a home for the elderly in Komárov near Šternberk in the Olomouc region. The home, which has resisted the plague throughout the pandemic, has thirty positive clients and a third of its employees. All infected clients are vaccinated, the course of the disease is usually mild.
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“The regional hygiene station has closed us, we all have quarantined and isolated clients. We have about fifteen positive employees, others are ill or have come into contact with the positive and are waiting for the results, “Andrea Kantorová, the director of the home, told ČTK. 92 clients live in the facility and vaccination coverage reaches 97 percent.
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They will ask for more
Soldiers who will help in hospitals and nursing homes have medical training. “The situation is serious. We are planning that there should be a further increase in the number of patients during the week. It will mean the maximum burden for the staff, so we are preparing for it in advance, “said the Governor of the Zlín Region Radim Holiš (YES). Further assistance is with the Czech Red Cross.
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According to the Ministry of Health, there were 316 patients with covid in hospitals in the Zlín Region on Thursday, and forty patients were in intensive care beds. In a week, 232 people were newly hospitalized with a covid.
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Some hospitals in the Moravian-Silesian Region will probably use the help of the army. “All hospital directors in the region were invited to specify their requests for assistance from the military and sent them to us during today,” said the spokeswoman for the governor’s office Nikola Birklenová on Friday, adding that the region does not yet know whether or which hospitals they will use the help of the army.
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“But we assume that the army will use the help somewhere,” she added. According to the spokesperson of the South Moravian Region, Alena Knotková, the Brno Military Hospital also asked for five military troops.
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Both Brno teaching hospitals will also welcome the help of soldiers, or police and firefighters, in the covid wards, which are rapidly filling due to the next wave of coronavirus pandemics. The AntiCovid team is due to discuss possible assistance on Monday. Both hospitals take care of the most serious cases. Some patients requiring demanding care are taken over from district hospitals.
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The help of soldiers will also go to the Hradec Králové region. “We will ask the army to deploy 22 soldiers,” Governor Martin Červíček (ODS) said on Friday.
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