Amalia Hatzigianni, Scientific Director of the Hospital, spoke about the situation prevailing in the Reference Hospital on SIGMA's show "Mesimeri kai Kati".
As he mentioned, it is especially difficult for patients to be in the hospital during these festive days and want a contact link with their relatives. The disease, he said, does not allow visits. "You realize how difficult it is to have to convey positive or negative information to relatives while they are away from the patient. "Introducing a patient and us having to be in a difficult position to inform the family in view of the Christmas days, you realize that it is the most difficult", he added.
As he said, at the moment 33 patients are being treated at the General Hospital of Famagusta, of which 8 are in the Intensive Care Unit, with a occupancy rate of 72%. The youngest patient is 22 years old and the oldest 90 years old, while the average age of the patients is 62 years. "The virus is not transmitted to anyone, it does not know age," he added.
He noted that the transmission of the Omicron mutation worldwide is dizzying and no one is safe. He added that we have the privilege and the ability to be vaccinated and until we get to the point of living with the virus without it killing us, we must take advantage of that privilege. "We see people in bed in pain scared.
"With the fear of imminent death, others with tears in their eyes ask for information about the health of their relatives, while we have in our hands the ability to avoid the worst," he said characteristically.