Yesterday’s dramatic on-call duty at Papanikolaou Hospital in Thessaloniki was described by the ICU director Nikos Kapravelos on SKAI TV and the show “Simera”, saying that “now we have no choice, it is” closed “due to fullness”.
“105 people came to our hospital infected and so many others left, because we could not serve them”, stressed Mr. Kapravelos. There were 44 admissions in the most severe cases and 4 patients are hospitalized outside the ICU. “It simply came to our notice then. These are the beds “, he emphasized characteristically.
He described family tragedies, with a 58-year-old woman being treated by intubation and a 60-year-old man losing his life the day before yesterday.
Today the “Papanikolaou” hospital opens 9 more intensive care beds with five doctors arriving from Athens in order to absorb the patients who are intubated.
Mr. Kapravelos commented that even if 100 ICU beds are opened, the rate of patients will be so high that they will not arrive. He expressed concern that they would go so far as to treat patients in the parking lot as in Romania.
He warned that if vaccination does not become mandatory then lockdown will be a one-way street and hospitals will have patients in parking lots like Romania.
“If this situation continues, then we, you will see, will get to the point of having patients in the parking lot. “We will not have other beds like Romania”, he noted characteristically.
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