Training visit, ready cubicles and most medical devices. There is a backup hospital at the Brno Exhibition Center just before its completion, intended for patients with a milder course of covid. It opens on Monday and can accommodate up to three hundred patients.
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The temporary hospital in Hall G2 may also be used by patients from other regions. Crowded hospitals are mainly in the Zlín region and in the Vysočina region. “We offered them help,” said Ondřej Ludka, Deputy Director of the Brno University Hospital.
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It is the largest Moravian hospital that is in charge of operating the facility. “The doctor will examine the patient at the entrance. He will make a classic income, just in abbreviated form, he will introduce nursing documentation. Then, classically, as in a hospital, he is put to a bed. Then everything works like in a normal hospital. He has daily visits, a nurse and nursing staff follow him, “he added.
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Patients will be cared for by a special crisis team of health professionals. The Emergency Medical Team of the University Hospital Brno will work in the backup hospital, helping the world with disasters. He has six doctors and 18 nurses. Volunteers will help him. According to Placha, the volunteer team will be able to provide care for about 100 patients who will be in the post-treatment phase of coronavirus. If the number increased, the hospital’s representatives would ask for help from other special teams from abroad. Earlier, for example, there was talk of Germany, Poland or Israel.
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Hockey players help
The hockey players of the Brno Comet and firefighters helped with the preparation of three hundred beds on Friday. “A total of five units were in charge of unpacking, assembling the beds and transporting them to the relevant hospital cubicles,” said Petr Oháňka, director of the Brno Regional Department of Regional Firefighters.
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The state ordered beds for ten million crowns from the company Proma Reha, the University Hospital Brno bought over 1,400 beds from it two years ago, said the spokesperson of the University Hospital Brno Veronika Plachá. “So our staff can handle them,” she said.
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The company delayed the agreed order to Hungary due to the backup hospital.
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Comet hockey players helped in the field hospital a few days ago, when they installed classic beds that will be used for staff. The captain of the Comet Martin Zaťovič was also present at the assembly. “It is a good idea. We are paid by Kometa and we are at home and we have nothing to do, so we can help. More work will be done. When it’s needed, it’s the right thing to do, “said Zatovic.
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The reason for the establishment of the backup hospital is the growing number of patients with covid-19. There are over 1,000 people with coronavirus in the region’s hospitals, and their number is still rising. “The backup hospital will not only function for our patients, but also for all patients from the region and outside the region,” Plachá reminded.
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