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Prof. Mihail Okoliyski: There is no reason for optimism – the fifth wave is coming.
Guests on the BNR podcast “Covid vaccines” are Prof. Mihail Okoliyski from WHO and Dr. Ludmil Shopov – cardiologist at ISUL
In this episode of the BNR podcast “The COVID Vaccines”, we invited a long-time expert from WHO in Bulgaria and cardiologist from Covid departments in “Tsaritsa-Joanna – ISUL” hospital.
We are talking to them about it Is there a fifth coming? Covid wave and is the fourth wave gone? How is the coronavirus currently treated and whether hospitals and doctors are secured with everything you need.
Guests in the episode are:
✅ Prof. Mihail Okoliyski – expert at the Office of the World Health Organization in Bulgaria since 2014
✅ Dr. Ludmil Shopov – cardiologist at the Cardiology Clinic of the “Tsaritsa-Joanna – ISUL” UMBAL, and since the beginning of the pandemic – in the Covid wards of the hospital
Prof. Dr. Mihail Okoliyski and Dr. Ludmil Shopov /from left to right/
“For me, the way in which the epidemic is developing in Bulgaria is not reassuring. I don’t know what the optimistic forecasts are due to to some of the responsible persons, because we still have a high number of newly infected people, a very high number of dead people, both on a daily and a weekly basis. The plateau that is being talked about is also very conditional – especially against the background of the low number of vaccinated, I don’t see any reasons for optimism“, said Prof. Okoliiski.
In the words of the WHO expert throughout “we are in a potentially very high dangerwhich makes us very different from other European countries.
“Over 50 percent of vaccinated people should have been achieved a long time ago, and people are not even following the measures. Even Romania is better than us.
Even according to WHO data the vaccinated medics are only 26 percent in Bulgaria”, Prof. Okoliiski also said.
Dr. Ludmil Shopov
According to Dr. Ludmil Shopov statements that the wave is passing are quite populist:
“Rather, it will remain a plateau with quite a few cases per day, eh hospitals are stretched to capacity.
Every day 10-12 patients are discharged and the beds are filled immediately.
We have 100 beds for moderate cases and 20 intensive care beds. The latter do not remain empty. And the doctors are exhausted to the extreme. The situation is much more difficult now.
Cardiologists, nephrologists, radiation therapists, traumatologists and resuscitators work in our Covid departments. But they are not enough, and they should be treated by pulmonologists and infectious disease specialists.
Throughout the pandemic, I can summarize that as a security we were almost always on edge. And as amounts of oxygen, remdesivir, which is still not enough, not to mention that it turned out to be not so effective.
Every day I had the feeling that some hospital in the country was going to explode with oxygen! So much was built up because of the patients with Covid-19, such a large amount we have never used oxygen in our practice…
Because seriously ill patients need to stay on oxygen for daysand not as before the pandemic – two days at a time.
And yes, people have constant complaints, some of them cannot stand so long with the device, they complain, they criticize us – but there is no other way – otherwise we have to intubate them. And this is not the best option for the final outcome,” said Dr. Shopov.
“9 out of 10 people intubated die, Assoc. Okoliiski also confirmed. Therefore, it is imperative that psychologists work with medical professionals.
According to Prof. Okoliyski the health system needs reform and the WHO has given recommendations for this.
According to the two doctors heel or whatever wave is comingwe should not rely on the introduced green certificate, but to strengthen the trend of decisive action for vaccination.
“Because a patient in the age group of 20-29 years died with us with a fake certificate, without diseases. So it is inadmissible to allow the falsification of the certificates – this is bullshit,” said Dr. Shopov.
„Vaccinated people can very rarely transmit the virus, they get sick mildly and do not die from the coronavirus”, Assoc. Prof. Okoliiski pointed out.
From the conversation you will learn more:
✅ Is the 4th wave going away or is a new increase in the number of infected cases awaiting us?
✅ Are the hospitals provided with everything they need to treat even in the fifth wave
✅ Are the new medications a ray of hope or is vaccination better?
✅ How to properly apply oxygen therapy and why there are dissatisfied patients
✅ How many thousands of doctors and what specialties treat patients with Covid-19
✅ Why blood thinners should not be taken as a prevention of Covid-19
✅ Why antibiotics should not always be used to treat the virus
Prof. Dr. Mihail Okoliyski – expert at the Office of the World Health Organization in Bulgaria since 2014. He graduated in social therapy in 1995 at the Humboldt University in Berlin, and in 1998 received his doctorate from the same university. For fifteen years he worked at the Center for Public Health and Analysis. He is the author of reports and publications presented in Bulgarian and international scientific journals. Taught undergraduates at Southwestern University.
Dr. Lyudmil Shopov graduated from Sofia Medical University in 2013. In 2018, he majored in Cardiology, and the following year he received a Certificate in Echocardiography. He is an assistant at the Department of Emergency Medicine of the Sofia Medical University, “Tsarica Joanna – ISUL” UMBAL since 2019. From 2013 to the present, he is a doctor at the Cardiology Clinic of the “Tsaritsa-Joanna – ISUL” UMBAL. By treating patients suffering from Covidhas been involved since the beginning of the pandemic, he was also the head of one of the Covid wards in the hospital.
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