On the basis of city clinical hospital № 24 earned coronavirus hospital. 20 April, it received its first patients. Body’s on the street, visited Sergei Sobyanin.
“Today is the 24th hospital comes into operation to combat coronavirus. Good hospital, good staff — professionals. There is resuscitation, resuscitators, that is all that is required to combat the coronavirus,” said the Mayor.
According to him, earlier it was planned to introduce from April 20 to nine thousand additional hospital beds for patients with coronavirus, but the dynamics shows that at the moment the quite about two thousand additional beds. In the capital there is a rapid increase of the dynamics of heavy patients. Revealed more and more patients without symptoms or with mild disease, and the quality of the tests improves.
Before conversion for the treatment of patients with coronavirus infection city clinical hospital # 24 was a modern multidisciplinary hospital, designed for 540 normal beds and 46 beds for intensive care. Then in the hospital carried out work to open the coronavirus hospital. This renovated building # 2 built in 1985, has made in this redevelopment and equipped chambers oxygen connections (in building # 1 built in 2009 for repairs not required). In addition, organized in blocks 1 and 2 “clean” and “dirty” areas, installed showers and decontamination stations (gateways) that prevent the spread of infection.
In the building № 1 there are 250 ordinary beds and 34 intensive care. There is also the Department of radiation and ultrasound diagnostics, endoscopy Department and clinical diagnostic laboratory. In the building № 2 — 290 beds and 27 beds in the intensive care unit.
Coronavirus, the hospital is equipped with modern medical equipment, including computed tomography scanners and ventilators. A high level of epidemiological safety provide a modern emergency Department with isolated boxes, separate entrances for the reception and discharge of patients, as well as separate entrances for staff equipped with locks and showers.
each room has individual bathrooms with a toilet, shower, sink, disinfection of the premises. In the required amount of purchased drugs, including antiviral and antibacterial agents, disinfectant and antiseptic means, means of individual protection of personnel.
Chief physician of GKB № 24 Gregory Rothman told that all employees are ready to work. “To date, great repair, now we have the updated hospital — he stressed. — There are all conditions for the provision of high quality care, and most importantly, ��there’s an opportunity to protect our staff.”
Sergei Sobyanin noted that it is very important to protect health care workers, especially members of the older generation who work in the hospital: “I think a lot of people, they primarily give attention to and build a schedule so that they were not at the forefront. This is very important.”
the hospital employs 226 of 431 doctors and fellow nurses. For case management formed a multidisciplinary team.
On the territory of city clinical hospital № 24, work began on the creation of a temporary prefabricated medical corps 71 bed intended for the treatment of recovering patients who do not require oxygen support.
part of the hospital perinatal center (4-th Vyatskiy lane, at 39, 41) continues work in a usual mode.
For the treatment of patients with coronavirus infection in the capital has offices in 42 Federal, municipal and private hospitals. In the settlement Voronovo (New) built and opened a new infectious diseases hospital of 800 beds with the possibility of expansion to 900 beds. Preparations continue for deployment of hospitals for the treatment of patients with coronavirus in several hospitals.
On the territory of a number of city hospitals has begun the establishment of temporary prefabricated medical buildings designed for recovering patients. They are equipped with everything necessary for comfortable stay of patients. In total in temporary buildings planned to accommodate about 1200 beds. Here patients will spend several days before discharge home.
For professionals working with patients with COVID-19, introduced extra charges to a salary: 70 thousand rubles per month for doctors, 50 thousand rubles — for nurses and 30 thousand rubles for nurses and other employees.