“Every winter, and before the pandemic, there were intubations outside the unit. There was narrowness in previous years as well. “The movement of patients is happening as fast as possible”, said the Deputy Minister of Health Asimina Gaga, speaking earlier in the Parliament. As the parliamentary representatives of the opposition parties P. Skourletis and N. Giannakopoulou, raised with the deputy minister the issue of the study of Messrs. Tsiodra-Lytra, Ms. Gaga hastened to point out that mortality rates are not comparable because in the sick, everyone has a different severity of incident, has a different age.
“I have been in the NSS for 30 years. Thirty years in the NSS, every winter the clinic had intubated outside the unit. We were not dying. They were out of the unit and we put them in when we had a bed. And the narrowness of the beds was much greater. In other words, we have much more ICUs now. During the pandemic, my own hospital, for example, had 12 ICU beds in the university clinic, 8 ICU beds in the first unit of the country, and 9 non-functional MAF beds. Today it has the 50 beds that are donated by the Parliament, and I have to thank you because this is really a breath of fresh air, it has 17 beds in the pandemic in the university because they took a sponsorship and gave another 5 beds and all the beds became the first unit in the country ICU. So ICU beds are arguably much more. “This year, we in Sotiria, from the time the new unit started, seldom had sick intubated patients who had to stay for a few hours in the clinic until they were moved to the unit,” said the Deputy Minister of Health.
“The issue of ICUs has been known for many years. There was narrowness. Now because there are so many cases, patients can actually stay out of the ICU for a few days. Traffic is fast. That is, there are people who come out every day or who unfortunately end up in the ICU and the sick move and move as fast as possible “, said Ms. Gaga and added:” To compare mortality, you can not just put numbers because Patients each have a different severity of the incident, a different age, so fewer reserves in a 90-year-old than in a 40-year-old and other morbidities. So there is no way to compare. People who stay out of the unit and cannot be served because they are in a hospital that does not have a unit are the ones who will move to other areas, or because they are too heavy, because they need vasoconstrictors, because they can not get in an ambulance. So there is no way to compare mortality. Of course, some patients will be left out of the units, the effort is always to move and move and go to the units “.
The Deputy Minister of Health also referred to what is happening in other countries with very strong health systems. “We have seen countries introducing people to stadiums, to other countries. In big countries, with terribly good health systems. Germany had to travel to Italy this year, now after two years of pandemic. So the point is, what can be done is done. We have also provided respirators and machines, and the effort to see the sick is very good and I must congratulate my colleagues because the work they are doing is heavy and continuous and they do not see light. They see that the cases are too many. This weighs too much. Otherwise you face a state of pandemic and emergencies for a month. In two years you are very tired and you say something needs to be done. “It’s important that we all take care of ourselves, our neighbors, the health system and our colleagues.”
NSS support exists. The private sector has also been exploited. Where we could not find people to help the system, we made a request, recruited health services, said the Deputy Minister and added: “Indeed, there are hospitals that have reduced the surgeries but it is not a huge issue. Private surgeries have been relocated to some areas at no cost to the patient. So the problem is dealt with in the best way. We move surgeries so that anesthesiologists and intensivists can do their job better. Some surgeries in the public sector may stop, but we send these surgeries to the private sector and they are performed without any charge. We are in constant contact with all the health districts, with all the doctors in all the hospitals. We all do what we can. “
Regarding the staffing in the ICUs, he pointed out that in Germany, the law on ICUs stipulates that in each shift there must be a specialized intensivist and assisted by doctors of other specialties. It is not like that for us. We have intensivists in the ICU and doctors to assist. So the problems right now, are fatigue problems, are endurance problems of people who are on burnout.
To those who criticize the government for turning the NSS into a single issue, Ms. Gaga replied: “The health system has never become a single issue. In November alone, in the 4th RCA, which is under a lot of pressure on a daily basis, it treated 17,000 patients with non-covid diseases and about 3,000 patients with covid diseases. Therefore, the NSS is not the only one “.
“We are taking all the lessons from pandemic management and designing a new health system,” said Gaga, referring to the prevention measures and the patient’s digital portfolio and the interconnection structure for better patient care. inaccessible areas. Especially for the digital file, he said that it is a patient file, which will share its data with the doctors only when he wants.
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