Gloves, respiratory protection, smittevernfrakker, glasses and visors. All are vital protection against the deadly koronaviruset.
Now taking an intense looking in Health-Norway on such smittevernutstyr, because hospitals and municipalities do not have had enough protection on the stock to cope with a pandemic.
the Latest at a press conference Friday afternoon told the health minister Bent Tall (H) that a freighter with smittevernutstyr was on its way to Norway.
at the same time as helsetopper tells about the millions of surgical masks that are flown in to the Uk, sign the question: How much smittevernutstyr need Norwegian hospitals and municipalities – together – to tackle the whole koronapandemien?
Professor: Can need around 70 million sets of smittevernutstyr
Earlier smittevernoverlege at Ullevål hospital, Bjørg Marit Andersen, believes the Uk may need around 70 million engangssett with smittevernutstyr, if many people get sick.
Photo: NRK
Bjørg Marit Andersen, professor in infectious disease and was smittevernoverlege at Ullevål hospital from 1994 to 2012. She has also written several textbooks on infection control for health professionals.
the Norwegian broadcasting corporation has asked Andersen to count on how much protection we may need during the pandemic.
– If 733.000 people are koronasyke, 5.500 need intensive care, and 22,000 people are admitted to the hospital, we need around 70 million engangssett with smittevernutstyr, ” says Andersen of the Norwegian broadcasting corporation.
Around 65 million of these sets will be used in primary care settings, estimates the Andersen. She emphasizes that these figures are more uncertain, and can vary more – depending on how many people get sick and how smittevernet be up there in the municipalities.
the Professor in the plot mean of each set of smittevernutstyr should consist of the following:
hood glasses/display “P3 mask “, or equivalent filtermaske (respiratory protection) smittefrakk/coveralls gloves
Andersen believes that all these sets should include respiratory protection as standard.
Respiratory protection is a mask with a special air filter to breathe through, and that will keep the virus away. Andersen believes that the face mask is not good enough.
Norwegian institute of public health believes that the face mask protects sufficient in many situations, and that respiratory protection should be used when carrying some types of treatments close to the patient.
Visor, hood and face mask. Nurse Get Cheetra demonstrates examples of smittevernutstyr on LHL-the hospital at Gardermoen for NRK.
Photo: The Wie Furunes / NRK Health South-East: For some equipment we operate with a higher
NRK has put forward the calculation to Andersen to the ceo of Health South East, Cathrine M. Lofthus.
Health South-East coordinates purchasing all of smittevernutstyr to Health-Norway under the koronakrisen.
– For a lot of other equipment, so we operate with a higher than what she makes in their projections. This is especially true for hospitals, ” says Lofthus to NRK.
Lofthus points out that Andersen has calculated all the equipment gathered in the engangssett, while the Health South-East is calculating the numbers for each type of smittevernutstyr – such as gloves and glasses – each for themselves.
Number of estimated used smittevernutstyr varies from 69,9 to 75,6 million sets, depending on how severe the pandemic will be – even if both are thought scenarios, and do not ensure the forecasts.
In one of the variants that Andersen has calculated within this usikkerhetsintervallet, needed to 71 million sets.
– Is she near, with 71 million?
If we take the gloves, so we operate with a much higher number. We take a face mask, so we are not that far away from each other, ” says Lofthus.
– Respiratory protection?
On the respiratory equipment is lower. Then one must look at the guidelines of the Norwegian institute of public health, for when to use surgical masks, and when to use respiratory protection.
You can read the whole calculation to the previous smittevernoverlege Bjørg Marit Andersen at the bottom of the case.
Also, the gloves must be put in place. Nurse Get Cheetra shows off smittevernutstyr on LHL-the hospital at Gardermoen.
Photo: The Wie Furunes / NRK Will still not say how much equipment the Uk has
Previously, the public health authorities received harsh criticism because they have kept secret an overview of how much smittevernutstyr Norway.
the ministry of Health has apologized for the argument for the refusal of transparency in the figures, as they justified, inter alia, with “the uncertainty this can father in the population”.
The Norwegian broadcasting corporation NRK on Friday will Lofthus still say little about how much smittevernutstyr that is on the bearings now.
– How much equipment we have in Norway now?
We have in the Uk) so we can us a few weeks. The joyful is that now we have yet another new aircraft on the way in, which is completely full of smittevernutstyr.
– Why won’t you tell how much equipment we have in the Uk?
There are mainly two reasons for it. The first is that we operate in a very demanding market now. The most important thing for us is to get your equipment back to Norway, and there we can actually. Second, it is a very dynamic image. It goes equipment into and out of all the store, ” says Lofthus.
By several hospital employees must now rationing on the smittevernutstyr. Thursday could NRK tell that the nurses fear for their own safety when they go to work.
It makes me upset. That is why we are so on to get this equipment. It is the most important thing for us is that all health care professionals are smittevernutstyr when they go to work, ” says Lofthus.
– Are we far away to have enough gear to survive through the pandemic?
– We need to continue to have these large flyforsendelsene to Norway. Now we’re working to retrieve as much equipment as we can, as fast as possible, so that we have the equipment here on Norwegian soil. It is only when we feel completely safe.
– Is there a crisis?
– It is not a crisis now, but it is a serious situation. But right now, we have shown that we are repeatedly unable to get the flylass home, ” says Lofthus.
Health South-East elaborates in an e-mail to NRK on Friday afternoon what kind of smittevernutstyr who have been flown to Norway the last time:
“In the previous flight (on Friday, 27. march) there were 6.4 million surgical masks, 250.000 smittevernfrakker, as well as some eye protection and respiratory protection. We have received in all, 7.5 million surgical masks from China, which we now have tested and that have good quality”.
About the plane that lands in the Uk on Friday evening, writes helseforetaket:
the Cargo on this aircraft, red.anm.) consists of about 10 semi-trailers and consists of 250.000 smittevernfrakker, 100.000 respiratory protection, 3.2 million surgical masks, 1 million operasjonsluer and any glasses/face shield. The equipment shall kvalitetskontrolleres both by professionals and believe that before this also can be carried out to the hospitals and municipalities throughout the country”
