Patients, doctors and all staff are sick. The Warsaw Southern Hospital is almost paralyzed by flu. It hasn't been that bad for a long time. The wave of infection spills all over the country. There are more and more patients, and until the end of the season is far away.
In recent days it has happened that in the driveway to the SOR of the Southern Hospital in Warsaw there were six ambulances at once. Reason? Influenza attack. – This weekend was very hard. We lacked places to lay patients with flu, because they must be isolated patients – said doctor Dawid Kacprzyk, deputy head of the hospital rescue department of the South Hospital in Warsaw.
Mr. Krzysztof Malicki from Warsaw lies in the isolation. He is in such a serious condition that he will have to stay in the hospital. There was no indication that it was flu. “I came with stomach pain,” the man said.
– We didn't expect such a violent attack. We have a lot of flu patients in the hospital. In recent years, I do not remember such a large number of patients requiring hospitalization during the season – admits Dr. Agata Kusz -Rynkun, medical director of the South Hospital in Warsaw.
Many patients go from an ambulance straight to the intensive care unit. – These are patients with severe complications in the form of pneumonia, exacerbation of heart failure, heart disease. We also had a very young man with the thunderous sepsis – mentioned Dr. Kusz -Rynkun.
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It is 4 times more infectious than flu, and the consequences of infection can be stretched for years. RSV virusMagda Łucyan/Fakty TVN
They go straight to the intensive care unit
One of the cases of snag complications, unfortunately, ended in death. Mr. Stanisław Marczak from Piaseczno will live, but it was also hard. He was also in intensive care. – It went to the lungs from the flu. I wiped it out, I went tragically. Simply tragically. For ten days I did not know that I was alive – admitted Mr. Stanisław.
The work of the hospital is on the verge of paralysis, because the infection did not bypass the staff. – A lot of doctors are sick. In our ward in SOR, it is already four doctors infected with flu, who simply got infected here on duty, despite the fact that we all walk in masks all the time – noted doctor Dawid Kacprzyk.
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Why such a gigantic increase in cases?
The data of the National Institute of Public Health shows that a similar situation is throughout the country. Compared to the same period of the previous year, we have at least four times more in the influenza.
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Why such a gigantic growth? Mr. Sławomir Kalbarczyk, who also lies in the hospital with influenza complications, believes that this is not because “I didn't get flu in my life and suddenly lack of breath,” the patient said.
This is said by a patient who meets the criteria to get vaccinated for free, because the National Health Fund refunds vaccinations for people over 65, children and adolescents up to 18 years old as well as pregnant and puerperium women. Others can take advantage of a 50 % discount.
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