In the UK, a rapidly growing number of deaths from coronavirus infection – on Sunday, April 5, died 4934 people. Hospital work from morning till night, trying to equip places of intense therapy for those who are in critical condition
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In the UK, a rapidly growing number of deaths from coronavirus infection – on Sunday, April 5, died 4934 people. Hospital work from morning till night, trying to equip places of intense therapy for those who is in critical condition. Of doctors talking about the serious lack of staff, equipment and medicines in hospitals, where assist patients with coronavirus.
Employees of the health care system of England is reluctant to give interviews, as the hospital management asked them not to make any public statements. However, one doctor-the resuscitation of the Midlands (Central England) spoke about what is happening. The material of the BBC Russian service her name changed to protect a doctor’s right to anonymity.
Dr. Roberts describes the hospital, which is struggling to cope in the ICU is full of patients with coronavirus. Cancelled all operations deemed non-urgent, even in the Oncology Department. According to her, not enough staff, not enough intensive care beds, not enough conventional antibiotics and the ventilator.
All this, coupled with the uncertainty about what will bring the upcoming peak incidence, which in Britain is expected on April 14-15, means that the employees of hospitals are already feeling the brunt of the current epidemic.
But the worst, says Dr. Roberts, is that all these health workers, who continued for 13 hours a day to care for sick patients had to make himself personal protective equipment (PPE) from garbage bags, plastic aprons and ski glasses.
It’s a complete disgrace that – in the sixth largest economy on earth – the NHS frontline health workers are having to make their own personal protective equipment out of waste bags and skiing goggles.
When will the Government sort this out? https://t.co/U1XqXSQfwx pic.twitter.com/U65N8bbuN6
— Richard Burgon MP (@RichardBurgon) April 5, 2020
while people are encouraged to keep a social distance of 2 meters, many employees of the National health service Trwill buetsya to examine patients from a distance of 20 cm and at the same time without proper protection.
Out of fear for their lives, many employees of departments of the hospital, where Dr. Roberts began to make a remedy.
“be reasonable. Nurses in intensive care they (PPE) is needed now. Sisters have such procedures that can spray everywhere the virus. But they are told to wear the surgical cap, which has holes and which do not provide the desired protection. This is wrong. And that’s why we have to tie the head with a garbage bags and plastic aprons,” says the doctor.
the Government acknowledges that there are problems with delivery, but assured that the national logistics team with the support of the army working round the clock to deliver the necessary equipment. The national health service of England also said that April 1 was obtained 1 million respirators, but no mention was not about the much-needed hats and coats with long sleeves.
Dr. Roberts said that her hospital received nothing from the government and what they have to use, is questionable. “On protective respiratory masks, which we now use, had been replaced by labels with the expiration date. Yesterday I found one respirator with three labels, one pasted on the other. The first is written the expiration date to 2009, and the second was due to expire in 2013. He was is stuck on the third date is 2021,” says the doctor.
according to the public health Service of England, all current stocks of PPE, relabeled with new dates of expiry, are tested to meet strict safety criteria and is suitable for use by community health workers. However, Dr. Roberts is in doubt. Currently under her care on a ventilator are three of her colleagues – all three of them got tested positive for the coronavirus. One of them, also in resuscitation from the Department, which receives patients from Covid-19, was not adequate protective gear, as most of Dr. Roberts. The other two doctors worked in other offices where it was not infected with the coronavirus, so they do not wear any PPE. However, judging by their symptoms, they both, as suggested by Dr. Roberts, contracted coronavirus infection at work.
Despite the fact that her fellow doctors continue to freely come to the hospital as all the other patients relatives there is no longer allowed. “The hardest part is having to tell relatives that we disable the device (patient in critical condition), on the phone; tell them that your relative is dying or already dead, but we can’t let them come and see,” says Dr. Roberts.
“Usually we say to the relatives, who sit at the bedside: “We will do everything possible”, but I feel that you just can’t say, because it’s not true: I can’t always put them on a vent, I can’t guarantee the best nursing care because nurses are already at maximum capacity. We’re running out of antibiotics, and we cannot guarantee that they will get all the necessary procedures that would help them”, – says the doctor.
National health service of England responded by saying that they have no evidence that any medical staff infected with coronavirus at work and was admitted to the hospital as a patient.
At the same time, two European countries where the epidemic is at the moment caused the most damage, continue to count losses. As stated on 27 March, the Minister of emergency situations of Spain, 9400 health workers infected by the virus, whereas in Italy (as at 30 March) more than 6414 people from the medical staff haveutverjdenii diagnosis Covid-19.
In Britain, a few health workers died from the infection: a nurse from the West Midlands ARIMA Nasrin, a nurse Thomas Harvey of East London, Professor Mohammed Sami Shousha from the hospital in Central London, Dr Alfa sa’ada North of London, Dr. Habib Zaidi, from Southend, Dr Adil al-Tayyar from East London, Dr. Amjed al-Hawrani from Leicester.
Nurses in British hospitals preparing for the onset of peak incidence, which, according to projections based on data from Italy and Spain, in Britain, will come in about two weeks. “If the number of cases will grow as fast as it was in Spain and Italy, then frankly, we’re screwed. Soon all our additional space will be filled. All of our anesthesia machines anesthetic that should work for 2-3 hours max, do not shut down for five days. We already have equipment failures,” – says Dr. Roberts.
the Number of additional intensive care beds that are installed in various offices and operational, almost twice exceeds the capacity of its hospitals to cope with the influx of patients in critical condition, especially those who cannot breathe on their own and who required mechanical ventilation. However, as pointed out by the doctor, with an increasing number of intensive care beds number of trained staff remains the same.
“the intensive care nurse is a highly trained staff, and under normal conditions they provide individual care for each patient, are in critical condition. Their patients can sleep, but the nurse knows every hair on their head. But now, with these additional beds, the sisters have to look after four patients at a time and try to do it on the same level, which gives individual care. They were in tears, they are very hard. They are the most important part of the whole of our Department, and it is notuderzhivaet load,” says the medic.