More than 4,200 patients contacted respiratory illnesses, and 160 ended up in a hospital bed during the past week. According to the Bistrita-Năsăud Public Health Directorate, two elderly people over 65 years old died after contracting pneumonia.
“It’s the season of colds, last week there were quite a few. The Infectious Diseases Department is full, but we already have the pandemic training, we know how to reorganize. There will probably be a need for beds in ATI dedicated to these cases. The elderly are more affected and develop more severe forms. Many people who need monitoring, such as babies or messengers, have arrived at the hospital. They may have an unfavorable evolution. The others were treated at home. There are many children with flu and Covid. We are trying to take the necessary measures. We expect that after the resumption of classes there will be more cases, but there are not many children”, said doctor Anca Andrițoiu, director of the Bistrita-Năsăud Public Health Directorate.
According to the cited source, two people died after catching the flu, one at the end of December 2023 – an 82-year-old man with many comorbidities – and another this month. He was 47 years old but suffered from chronic kidney failure.
“No one was vaccinated. Especially elderly people died of pneumonia, but also a young woman who had cancer”, said Dr. Andrițoiu, who reminded that it is good to put into practice what we learned during the pandemic: to avoid collectives, and if we can’t, to we put on a mask.
“If we are sick, let’s stay at home, and this exhortation applies especially to parents. If the child has symptoms in the morning, before going to school, it is better to stay at home and get treatment than to go to the community. In schools, I hope they haven’t given up the habit of airing every break, of doing serious cleaning, of having disinfectants everywhere. It was also recommended that, in the first lesson, the teachers do a sort of triage, and if someone shows symptoms, send them home. I think that parents are responsible and don’t send their children to school if they sneeze or cough,” said Dr. Andrițoiu.
In the coming period, the Public Health Directorate will receive a single-dose vaccine for the latest strain of Covid, manufactured by the Moderna company, which it will distribute to family doctors.
2024-01-31 05:03:55
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