All because of a positive coronavirus that her daughter suspects her father had been infected with Vilnius City Clinical Hospital (VMKL), text.
A nearly 80-year-old man in a wheelchair was struck around hospitals without access to bed, without drinking water and without personal belongings and the medicines he needed. The daughter was under great stress at the time, unable to help a loved one and not even receiving information about his condition.
“I don’t understand how it is possible to become an old sick person who has endless diseases, maybe because of that he thinks more slowly, reacts more slowly to the environment. All this situation can make him an even bigger patient, and finally a nursing patient, because he will no longer be able to take care of himself, and the conditions are created by the medical staff, ”said Violeta, sharing her story with Delfi readers because she believes that during a pandemic not one has experienced similar experiences.
It all started in the second half of August, when her father was admitted to the Cardiology Department of the VMKL due to a heart disease that had become obsolete during the quarantine. He lay there for about two weeks. The hospital also contracted pneumonia, which led to an extension of hospitalization.
“He was discharged home last Thursday after finding that the signs of pneumonia had disappeared and he could travel to Abromiškės Rehabilitation Hospital from Monday,” the woman recalled.
When a man who received two doses of the vaccine in hospital developed pneumonia, he underwent COVID-19 test. Then it was negative.
On Friday, after being discharged from the hospital, the husband had a low fever, which his daughter tried to knock off with medication. Inflammation of the bladder is also likely to have occurred as a result of the infection.
However, by Monday the temperature had dropped and at 12.30pm. the daughter took her father to Abromiškės Rehabilitation Hospital for rehabilitation. Already on his way back to Vilnius, his daughter received a call from the hospital: after the patient had a rapid antigen test, he was positive, so it was decided to take the man to Santara clinics.
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“They waited about 4 hours for the ambulance to arrive and transfer to the COVID department at the Santara clinics. A person with special needs and difficulty moving sat in a wheelchair all the time – he was not even given the opportunity to lie down.
He was transported to the Santara clinic without any items. He left all his belongings in Abromiškės. This is probably a staff mistake. After all, a person should have the necessary tools with him, such as diapers, the necessary medicines that he cannot miss – he has to drink every day because we will have a poor situation.
He had a phone with him and could call me from time to time. I even asked him, “Were you allowed to lie down?” He said, “No.” I realized that there was not even drinking water, so at night I transported the water to Santara clinics so that I would have such an opportunity to drink water, ”the interlocutor remarked.
When the senior was brought to the Santara clinic, it became clear that there was no space in the COVID department, so it was decided to transport the man, although from Vilnius, to the COVID department of Elektrėnai Hospital.
“When I called the first hour of the night, it hadn’t arrived yet. Before that, I called the Admissions Department of Santara Clinics, where a very arrogant person spoke to me, saying that he did not have time to discuss and Elektrėnai would provide all the information. What I wanted to find out failed. I asked why my father was being taken to Elektrėnai. He said that this is the system where, in the absence of places, he is transported to district hospitals, ”the woman recalled.
Later, the director of Santara clinics was a doctor of medicine Valdas Pečeliūnas Delfi clarified that COVID-19 coordinators are responsible for regulating patient flows. They make decisions about the need and location of a patient’s hospitalization, taking into account the patient’s condition, comorbidities, and facility occupancy.
Valdas Pečeliūnas
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“The employment situation of institutions is constantly changing, and the distribution of flows is changing accordingly. Of course, patients have to and will sometimes have to be transported to support hospitals as well, ”V. Pečeliūnas explained.
In Elektrėnai, according to her daughter, her father appeared only at 3 p.m. of the night.
“As of this minute, I have no information about the condition or further treatment,” the interlocutor said on Tuesday afternoon. “We, our relatives, hit a kind of border when medical institutions drop any responsibility, send them from one to another.”
Worst of all, National Public Health Center (NVSC) staff considered the elderly man’s family members who had close contact with him to have had high-risk contact. as all are fully vaccinated, they should not be isolated, but the NVSC instructed all members to perform PCR tests to make sure they were healthy.
“I called the Hotline. They said they do not register for such tests and that is the full responsibility of the NVSC. They only record isolated cases if there are any symptoms that may not necessarily be a consequence of the fight. After all, the flu season is starting now.
We hit the wall again. I have to ask NVSC how to do those tests so we can be calm. Because the Hotline said: despite the fact that we are vaccinated until we get the tests and get the results, we need to isolate ourselves. It absolutely binds hands-feet, because I can’t even go to Elektrėnai and hand over the necessary things to my father, who has nothing and I don’t know if someone will take care of him. The province is a province, ”sighed the woman.
Violeta was surprised by the situation her dad found himself in: “Maybe this does not apply to all age groups, but only to seniors who already have enough chronic illnesses, various symptoms. They are probably the more vulnerable, wind-blown individuals for whom any infection could be a way out to another world at all. In this case, you have such a peculiar phenomenon as the destruction of grandparents, when you try to get rid of people as soon as possible so that they do not take places, do not occupy beds in hospitals. ”
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The daughters of the doctors were able to find out that the father could have contracted the coronavirus with VMKL, where there was a focus and even some doctors with the infection went to work.
“It simply came to our notice then. As far as I know, all the medical staff have been vaccinated, but the vaccinations are 100 percent. does not protect. My dad was also fully vaccinated, but he got that virus and maybe got it from the staff or other patients lying there.
Although the infection is spreading there, it is not stopped, the ward is not closed – it is still working, the visit is also taking place – patients can visit the ward twice a week. What are the priorities of the medical institution? ”Violeta was surprised, adding that there is a different order in Abromiškės Hospital. Accompanying persons are not admitted to the rehabilitation hospital further reception.
The interviewee questioned whether her dad could have contracted COVID-19 somewhere else – not in the hospital, because when she was discharged, she only spent time at home – nothing else happened.
VMKL did not answer the Delfi portal’s questions about possible outbreaks. However, Justina Petravičienė, a public information specialist at the Vilnius Department of the National Center for Public Health, confirmed that there were outbreaks in two departments of this institution, but they are currently inactive.
“The outbreak is closed when no cases have been recorded in the last 14 days,” explained J. Petravičienė.
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