In Russia, the increase in infections from coronavirus, SARS and flu continues. The country is enraged strain A(H1N1), known as swine flu – the most dangerous and aggressive. In 2009, it was he who caused the pandemic that claimed thousands of lives. As you know, in previous years the flu replaced covid, but this season it again attacked the Russians. Swine flu has already been detected in 82 regions, Rospotrebnadzor said.
– This strain of influenza has a very high contagiousness, has quite serious complications – pneumonia, damage to the central, peripheral, kidney, nervous system, – Doctor of Medical Sciences Igor Nikitin.
Polyclinics are literally torn apart by a flurry of calls from patients with symptoms of the disease.
“Today I called the doctor at home through the 122 service. After a while they called me back from the surgery and they told me that there were no doctors and no one would come. Come yourself – and this is with a temperature of 38.6 “ – St. Petersburg readers of the report “Doctor Peter”.
Overloaded and fast. Sometimes you have to wait a long time. Many of the patients are children.
«We waited for an ambulance for the child for several hours, then for a long time we were looking for which hospital to take him to – there are a lot of sick people, there is a problem with seats”, – this is what the readers of the publication say about the situation in St. Petersburg.
“Doctor Peter” knows how to determine what kind of virus you have caught, what complication the flu is dangerous for, when you need to call an ambulance and what to do if it does not arrive for a long time.
