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KYJOV, Czech Republic (AP) – Soldiers in Poland check for coronavirus, U. S. National Guard troops medically trained the Czech Republic to paint alongside doctors, a student from a Czech university passes blood samples to laboratories and the mayor of the capital takes turns in a hospital.
As cases accumulate in many Central European countries, firefighters, academics and retired physicians are asked to help the fitness systems they suffer.
“It’s terrifying,” said Dr. Piotr Suwalski, head of the heart surgery branch at a Polish hospital, on a day when daily instances of COVID-19 increased by 20% across the country. “I think if we keep earning 20% a day, no formula can resist it. “
Even before the pandemic, many countries in the region faced a tragic shortage of medical staff due to years of insufficient funding in their public fitness sectors and the exodus of doctors and nurses to better-paying jobs in Western Europe after countries joined the European Union. in 2004 Now, with the virus in their hospitalsArray many fitness staff are sick, which aggravates the deficit.
More than 13,200 doctors across the Czech Republic have been infected, with 6,000 nurses and 2,600 doctors, according to the doctors’ union.
It’s just doctors who need those countries. Poland and the Czech Republic are construction box hospitals while beds are filled in the halls, and the government says there are only 12 fans left in all hospitals receiving COVID-19 patients in the region around Warsaw. polish capital.
This may sound familiar, but not for those countries. Many others in the region imposed serious restrictions in the spring, adding seal borders and final schools, department stores and restaurants, and saw very low infection rates even when the virus killed tens of thousands of people in Western Europe.
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But now many Central European countries are under attack for what they have experienced through their western neighbors, and the same disastrous warnings.
In uttering new restrictions last week, Czech Prime Minister Andrej Babis set a date when his country’s fitness formula would yield if new regulations were imposed to curb the spread of the virus: between 7 and 11 November.
With one of the highest infection rates in Europe, hospitals in the Czech Republic are desperately looking for volunteers. The government is sending thousands of medical academics to hospitals and other academics to verify the sites.
In the capital of Prague, Mayor Zdenek Hrib, a medical graduate, volunteered to take part in initial examinations of imaginable coronavirus patients at a university hospital. Soon, 28 medical corps of workers from the Nebraska and Texas National Guard are expected to arrive to help treat patients at the Prague Military Hospital and a new box hospital at the city’s fairgrounds.
Croatia has asked former doctors to retire from retirement to hospitals, while Slovenia has put retired doctors and existing medical scholars on hold should their scenario deteriorate.
Meanwhile, Poland is mobilizing infantrymen to conduct COVID-19 tests, so fitness professionals can focus on helping patients, as Warsaw National Stadium and other spaces are becoming cash hospitals. new infections and also announced a record number of deaths on Wednesday, at 236.
At the Hospital of the Ministry of the Interior in Warsaw, the capital’s main coronavirus hospital, the deaths of others with cancer and other diseases are also spreading because doctors and nurses only attend their attention, said Suwalski, head of the cardiac surgery department.
“The number of victims of this pandemic is not just about patients dying directly from COVID-19,” Suwalski said. “There are also (patients) who die due to the replacement of conditions and even the collapse of the medical system. “
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The challenge is acute in small hospitals in cities that do not have the resources of university medical centres, such as Kykhov, a city of another 11,000 people in the southeast of the Czech Republic.
The hospital’s director there, Lubomir Wenzl, said staffing was critical in October, as the number of PATIENTS with COVID-19 doubled in 3 weeks to nearly 60, and 75 medical staff had fallen ill.
He called the volunteers on social media and won so many gifts that the hospital was able to decide who he loved. Most of the time, the hospital has opted for other people with medical training. They keep a list of other people they can call. if you want them.
“I have healthy hands and legs, and that’s all I can do as a firefighter,” said Antonin Kuchar, mayor’s lieutenant and volunteer firefighter who helped move patients to the hospital.
Vojtech Coufal, a mechanical engineering student at a university in Brno, answered the call. The 20-year-old trained in first aid and sent blood samples around the hospital campus.
While volunteer assistance is vital, their roles are limited, said Dr. Jiri Vyhnal, head of Kykhov’s intensive care unit, who treats patients with COVID-19 in serious condition.
“It’s getting those doctors up to date with anyone, because it takes a lot of time to get pleasure and become an intelligent specialist in extensive care,” Vyhnal said. “The challenge is that a small organization of doctors and nurses will have to deal with a large number of patients treated with pulmonary ventilation. “
As the number of patients with coronavirus increases, the hospital has closed several services: ear, nose and throat, neurology, rehabilitation and orthopedics.
“We have been forced to avoid planned operations, but we will have to continue urgent operations,” said Wenzl, the hospital’s director.
The extensive care unit has 11 patients and can be made up of up to 18, according to Vyhnal.
He claimed that he and his staff were willing to paint his days off “to avoid an Italian scenario,” referring to the overflowing hospitals.
“We’ll do everything, ” he said. But, of course, we’re afraid, who wouldn’t?”
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