Recently, there has been a decline in the coronavirus and the admissions of patients to public hospitals are accountants, said to KYPE Amalia Hatzigianni, Scientific Director of Larnaca - Famagusta General Hospitals.
He added that "currently 20 patients with coronavirus are being treated at the Reference Hospital, six of whom are in the Intensive Care Unit as they need closer monitoring. The youngest patient is 43 years old and the oldest is 91, the average age of the patients in the Hospital is 66 years, while the percentage of patients who have not been vaccinated is around 74% ".
He added that "4 patients are being treated at the Larnaca General Hospital, while the Eden Rehabilitation Center in Tersefanou is hosting 62 people who will remain until their complete negativity".
According to Ms. Hatzigianni "lately there is a recession of the virus, with the result that the admissions to the public hospitals are few".
Answering a question about the increase of the average age of the patients in the Hospital, Mrs. Hatzigianni said that "despite the fact that some people were vaccinated against the coronavirus, they were nevertheless infected with Covid-19, after their immunity time had passed. "Patients with coronavirus have been isolated on the third floor of the Referral Hospital, which operates exclusively for Infectious Diseases."
The Scientific Director of the General Hospital of Famagusta also said that "the public hospital operates normally for the rest of its departments, ie the First Aid Department, the Hemodialysis Department and the outpatient clinics. At the same time, a number of beds have been activated to accommodate patients with other diseases. "
He also stated that "it has started operating in the area of free-flow vaccination - walk-In for the third dose of the coronavirus vaccine, in the elderly and today people aged 85 and over are served. The third dose seems to be necessary because, like all vaccines, the time of immunity is reduced and it needs to be repeated, in order to protect these people, in view of the onset of winter, while many people have already started to be vaccinated against the flu ".
He also noted that "the vaccination continues normally and satisfactorily, however everyone, vaccinated or not, must observe the measures of personal hygiene and protection, ie mask and distances wherever it is located".