The variety of intensive care items (ICU) and kids’s medical doctors are inadequate in Greece which is going through a significant spike in respiratory infections, well being specialists stated Tuesday.
Nikos Kapravelos, ICU director of the Papanikolaou Hospital within the northern port metropolis of Thessaloniki, stated pressing preventive measures must be taken in faculties to restrict the unfold of viruses, the flu and the coronavirus as a result of there aren’t sufficient ICU beds and kids’s medical doctors.
He advised non-public broadcaster OPEN TV that the rise in respiratory infections led to the collapse of well being methods in lots of European international locations, together with the UK, and argued that Greece can expertise an analogous state of affairs in two months if preventive measures are delayed.
Kapravelos emphasised that the state of affairs in northern Greece, the place 30% of the nation’s inhabitants lives, is especially grim.
“We only have eight ICU beds for children, and they are 100% full. We should have at least 10 times more, according to the EU standards,” he stated, noting that even when crucial medical-technological tools is bought, there aren’t sufficient medical professionals to workers an extra kids’s ICU at his hospital.
Similarly, Andreas Iliadis, director of the kids’s ICU at Patras University Hospital, famous his facility suffers from an absence of ample medical doctors and ICU beds.
