the north wing of Rigshospitalet will be hastily converted for the treatment of seriously ill coronapatienter.
the university hospital is now taking a newly built wing in use for critically ill coronapatienter.
Thereby doubling the hospital capacity, when it comes to intensive seats.
The existing 65 intensivsenge will be supplemented with a further 30 seats in the new section, as well as 25 extra in the existing icu.
With the option to extend by a further 30 seats.
– We are making ready to be able to handle 300 patients in need of intensive treatment, when the peak in some weeks, says international architects Sophie Hæstorp Andersen (P) at a press conference.
It is The newly built north wing, which will be transformed into the coronahospital.
the Department, which opens Wednesday, will be named Covita – it stands for Covid Intensive Therapy Section.
brussels-capital Region is hard hit by the coronavirusset with 259 out of the overall, 533 patients, who are hospitalized in hospitals across the country.
137 of them are so sick that they are on intensive branches – including 63 in the Capital Region.
the Construction of the north wing has been in progress for several years. It was originally the plan, to the to house the operations for, among other ear-, nose – and halskirurgiområdet.
But coronavirusset and disease Covid-19 have turned up and down all the plans.
So now it 54.700-square-foot building, which was inaugurated by queen Margrethe in January, transformed into coronaafsnit.
But the bed places are do not do it alone.
They also need to be staffed, and here there is a lack of among other nurses, says the chief physician Jan Bonde on the press conference.
– It requires additional physicians and sygeplejebemanding. We still need nurses to reach the goal, he says.
He refers to coronavirusset as a new and unpredictable opponent.
I am deeply concerned, most of the unpredictability. We do not know to what extent it will get. My concern for the staff is at least as big as my concern for patients, says Jan Bonde.
There have previously been reports of a lack of protective equipment for staff. But it is, according to the chief physician, who is also the head of the new coronaafsnit, now come track of.
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