Fifty-three-year-old Pavel fell ill with Covid-19 during the first wave. As he himself says, the disease had a really rapid decline. “After three days, they took me to Pardubice to the hospital. There, about four days later, they told me that they could do nothing with me. They put me to sleep. I didn’t wake up until three and a half weeks in the hospital in Prague,” Pavel Šafář explained.
At the General University Hospital on Charles Square, doctors fought for his life. They even had to connect it to the ECMO device, which provides extracorporeal circulation. “It was the worst for the family. Mainly because of the information they received. It’s bad and it’s not getting better. Another organ was testified again,” the sick man continued.
Due to the great care of doctors, Pavel was saved. Four months after his discharge from the hospital, he still goes for regular check-ups at the General University Hospital in Prague. Paul’s lungs now have a capacity of only 50 percent. They are 25 percent damaged. In addition, his right diaphragm was paralyzed.
“I was released from the hospital because I was already negative. They said that everything was fine, that I was capable of a normal life. But when I was transferred to the rehabilitation hospital in Pleša, I was not able to get into the ambulance,” Pavel described.
Paul has been making progress since being released from the hospital. He can walk four to five kilometers. He also has a message for all those who deny the existence of Covid-19. “I know it’s hard. They think someone’s denying them some freedom. They should go to the hospital for that day to see the people they’re in. They just walk around you for 12 hours and they don’t really know the clock. when the patient falls away and the end is over, “Pavel told the deniers.
Pavel Šafář is far from the only one who struggles with unpleasant consequences after recovery from Covid-19. Take a look at the Televizní noviny report:
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