For last night the signals related to COVID-19 to the capital’s Emergency Aid are 190, the center announced. However, the ambulances are forced to go around hospitals to look for places to accommodate the sick, an inspection of BTV found.
Upon request from the emergency medical center, they refused to accept a team of journalists in their ambulance to film their work in the pandemic. The reason – “overload”. That’s why the team follows them on a random basis. An ambulance was seen in front of the hospital for lung diseases “Prof. Ivan Kirov “.
There is a patient in it with shortness of breath and rapid breathing. After more than 10 minutes of waiting, the emergency medics refused to accept him. An attempt to accommodate in the neighboring “St. Ivan Rilski “. The emergency doctor rings at the entrance of the restaurant.
From there, however, they replied that they did not have free beds for COVID patients and the ambulance continued to the fifth medical institution. He moved in front of the capital’s First City Hospital. And there are no beds in the intensive care unit, the director Prof. Tsvetomir Dimitrov told BTV.
The ambulance took the critical patient to Alexandrovska Hospital, where he was finally admitted.
Another ambulance with a COVID patient was spotted again in front of the First City Hospital, and then again in front of the Infectious Diseases Hospital. However, admission is impossible. The cameras from the St. Sophia Lung Hospital noticed the patient.
Minutes later in front of “Pirogov” another ambulance drove a serious case of COVID with saturation 33. When trying to be taken to the hospital, doctors objected on the grounds that they were overcrowded with patients. After exchanging remarks, the patient was still accommodated.
“It is lucky that in the last two weeks a free COVID bed has appeared in Sofia without going around,” said a Pirogov staff member, who requested anonymity. “The situation is difficult – first they try in” Pirogov “, then in the Military Medical Academy, then in Alexandrovska and so there is no end!”, He explains.
Hours later, the television team came across two other cases of COVID patients. In front of their homes, he heard that both of those examined had signed a refusal to be taken to hospitals for fear that no beds would be found.
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