The problem faced by the Intensive Care Units (ICUs) of public hospitals that are full of cases COVID-19, with the result that other incidents are referred to the private sector, said the Minister of Health and the Director General of the Ministry, during their visit to the free-flow vaccination center that operated on Thursday at the University of Cyprus.
Michalis Hadjipandelas particularly noted the problem with young people, heads of families who are currently in the intensive care unit, while they have not been vaccinated.
Answering questions about increased patient care COVID-19, the Minister of Health, stated that there is indeed a problem in the intensive care units. He said that at the moment they are in the intensive care unit 46 years old with 4 minor children, 42 year old person with two children and 40 year old person with four children.
"These people are there in the intensive care unit and they are fighting. "At the same time that they are fighting, there is also the family that is behind, that is upset," he said. He added that they contact us and ask you to "do what you can, we will lose our people, they are young people, they have children, they have brothers, they have relatives, you have to do something".
Certainly, he added, our hospitals do everything, but as he said "in order not to reach this situation, there is a way and it is proven. Vaccination. And that is the way these young people who are here and do it trust him. "
He also noted that if these compatriots who are currently in the ICU had had the vaccine, there would not have been this problem and this is what their relatives are saying at the moment: martyrdom".
He added that there is indeed an issue with the intensive care units and the Ministry is monitoring it. As he said, even the Intensive Care Unit 3 will be opened at the General Hospital, however, as he said, the people should realize that there are not countless intensive care units. At the same time, he said, there are patients with other health problems such as heart patients, cancer patients who may need these ICUs and whom, he added, we can not exclude from using these Units, when others need them. because they have not been vaccinated.
Stating that "we will serve everyone", the Minister sent the message that we should all be vaccinated so as not to fill the ICUs and not be able to cope.
He also said that the ICU that is opening now will have about 10 more beds available, while there is a plan for another 12 if needed. He added that the new ICU may be able to open today. He also said that at the moment there are many patients in intensive care in private hospitals.
For her part, the General Director of the Ministry of Health Christina Giannaki stated that in the last meeting with the Minister in the presence of OAY and OKYPY, she raised the issue of nursing homes "that with the slightest thing that happens to an elderly person they load him up in the ambulance and send him to the hospital. " He said that for this reason they sent a letter in which they say that the contracted personal doctors should go to the nursing homes to examine the elderly, write a medical report and if his condition is serious enough then he should be transported to the hospital. "Not with the flea leap to put the elderly and send them to first aid," he said.
He added that so far the Ministry has referred around 236 patients to all hospitals inside and outside GESS. At the moment, he said, about 93 patients have been left in private hospitals, and about 28 patients have been sent to the intensive care unit.
Every day, he said, there is a plan to get patients out of the General Intensive Care Unit so that they can cooperate with the private sector intensive care unit, in terms of non-coronavirus cases. As he said, it is a very difficult manipulation, but the Ministry is proceeding to help the patients. He added that this morning a 26-year-old girl left for Germany by air with a very serious problem, while yesterday another patient was sent.
"We are trying through a titanic effort to help our fellow human beings but they need the necessary care and as a welfare state and as the Ministry of Health we do everything to help all these people who are really in need," he said, adding that the Minister supports too much of this effort which however is not easy. He also said that intensive care in the private sector is not inexhaustible.