In the hospitals of Thessaloniki and the rest of Greece, the mortality rate is estimated at up to 35% and 40%, respectively, higher than in Attica, said Public Health Professor Theodoros Lytras in SKAI’s main news bulletin, on the sidelines of the study on mortality and signed together with Professor Sotiris Tsiodras and published in a reputable medical review.
According to the professor, based on the findings, it is not so much the number of ICUs that matters as how they actually work.
It is recalled that according to research data, in the country from September 1, 2020 to May 6, 2021, as the burden on ICUs increases, so does mortality, without at the same time observing the depletion of available beds.
At the same time, the research shows that the mortality rate seems to be higher when intubated patients are hospitalized outside Attica and when they are not admitted to the ICU.
In any case, the investigation has not yet clarified the causes of this phenomenon with the exact reasons that it exists may be a future object of investigation, according to Mr. Lytras.
“Although more or less everyone can understand what can be hidden before that” he commented, explaining in particular that possible explanations may well be the little staff, how an ICU is set up, but in any case the conclusion is that – at least in the examined period in the context of research – that the resilience of the NSS is low and should be strengthened.
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