The army will help to increase the points where the citizens will be able to conduct a free Rapid test, as announced by Thanos Plevris.
In particular, the Minister of Health stated in an interview with the First Program that “50 more points will be added nationwide for free tests by the Ministry of National Defense and a total of 100 points will be made together with EODY units and hospitals, where free tests are performed. “Mr. Plevris. The points that will be announced in the coming days, will be located near camps, throughout the territory and it is not excluded that more will be added.”
Mr. Plevris in relation to the discussion that has opened recently for the prescription of molecular tests explained that in our country a model has been selected that includes the free availability of many self-tests many points to be done for free rapid and PCR, with the molecular test as all countries do, to be associated mainly with confirmation of disease and in unvaccinated. “When you are the first country in the diagnostic tests it means that you control the population much more and you have much more suspicious cases. We have chosen this because we consider them to be reliable methods and because we consider them to be very important especially in Omicron, which is basically the disease and in a younger population, it is a disease that does not carry risks like the other strains, it is more important for us to find them. and to bend the contagion rather than consume an entire system to the full positivity of the many cases that are found. “
“Indeed, the ordering of services by the 3rd and 4th RAE has started from Northern Greece and in the part of Athens and Piraeus, we have asked the heads of RAE to indicate the needs that exist so that we are ready if necessary for the ordering of services. Mr. Plevris stressed, among other things.
The peculiarity of the basin, he explained, is that because there is a close cooperation with the private clinics that have provided about 300 beds but also with some clinics that can not manage covid cases there is cooperation in order to provide their staff for the public system. , the wish of the ministry is not to have this necessity in the basin, however the needs must be made known. “It is on the table, but it will also depend on the course of cooperation with private clinics,” said Mr. Plevris.
He added that there are many tickets at the moment and they mainly concern simple beds. Moreover, in patients with Omicron, their hospitalization time is relatively short, about 5 days, so there are many discharges. It seems, therefore, that within the next 10 days, 15 days, there will be a balance of tickets-tickets, according to the Minister of Health.
“We came to a partnership with the big groups because they are structures that can support large oxygen supplies needed by covid cases, so we have made there an agreement for 10% beds that can go up to 15%. From the smaller clinics that are the second federation we have agreed and their structures are being monitored, in which of them there can be support and where there can not be, we will take part of the staff that will be able to open an additional 100-150 beds in the public system that do not work now “he noted.
“The biggest pressure we will receive is what cases of those who are hospitalized may need ICUs, where the possibilities have been exhausted, that is, there can not be more than the 1300 we have. “While Omicron has not given ICU cases so far, there is still Delta, which concerns 50% of the hospitalizations”, the minister added.
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