The minister emphasized that the disease is now much milder and hospitalizations are stable. Also, there is a balance in tickets-exits and cases are stabilizing with a downward trend.
“In autumn and winter we will have more pressure on the health system” and for that reason “we have whole models ready for how we will operate” for its treatment, emphasized the Minister of Health Thanos Sidespeaking to .
As Mr. Pleuris said, from September we will have many structures, including private ones, to deal with any pressure. He also noted that we are not in the situation we were a year ago.
Regarding hospitalizations during the summer, he said that there is a balance in admissions-discharges and cases are stabilizing with a downward trend. In fact, 30-35% of cases go to the hospital for another reason and are diagnosed with coronavirus. Therefore, they are not hospitalized due to coronavirus, but due to another condition and are forced to be transferred to covid beds after the diagnosis.
The minister emphasized that the disease is now much milder and hospitalizations are stable. “The pressure was basically on Athens”, he added and mentioned that the problem will be if the structures in the island country are pressed. However, so far there is no pressure and August is predicted to be better.
He also emphasized that there is a 5-10% reduction in cases.
Regarding the weekly update from EODY, he said that it is preferable as the pandemic now has other characteristics.
Death of a 49-year-old man outside a hospital in Patras
About his incident death of a 49-year-old man in Patras outside the hospital, which he was not on duty, Mr. Pleuris said that based on the preliminary investigation, an EDE was ordered.
The opinion that when a hospital is not on duty it is “closed” is not valid, he said and emphasized that “there are no closed hospitals in the country”.
As he explained, if a person is in a hospital that is not on duty, the diagnosis must be made by a doctor. “Once a case goes to a hospital, it’s a hospital case and they have to manage it.”
In fact, before the 49-year-old, the protocol was applied correctly, when a patient went and the same nurse called the doctor for a diagnosis and he was sent to the hospital where he was on duty.
The 49-year-old was not seen by a doctor and the assessment was done by the nurse, who in that case did not apply the protocol as before.
Regarding putting some workers on holiday, Mr. Pleuris said that this will be decided by the disciplinary body that conducts the audit.
Finally, about her bill assisted reproduction which is being voted on today in Parliament, the minister said that “we enable women to do cryopreservation even without a medical reason”. Also, a unit is being formed at the Attica Hospital for assisted reproduction of people with HIV.
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