The number of intensive care patients has increased in Finland during the autumn, the Finnish newspaper writes Evening paper.
According to the newspaper, data from Friday show that there were 36 people admitted to the intensive care unit in the country, while on 20 September there were still 19 patients.
Katriina Rautjärvi is a specialist in anesthesia and intensive care, at Päijät-Sote Hospital in the city of Lahti. He says Evening paper that after a year and a half, the fight against corona is still not over.
Nurses have had to perform tasks for which they have not received training. In the intensive care unit and elsewhere in the health care system, they are overworked, he writes.
– We can no longer. I’m exhausted, he writes.
There are too few places for the number of intensive care patients, so many have to be moved over longer distances and wards. It poses a risk, says the doctor.
On Facebook, he writes in one posts that the situation is unsustainable for both nurses and doctors.
The intensive care physician blames, among other things, that there are too few who want to take the vaccine and that the number of admitted patients can be reduced with vaccinations.
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Frode Forland, director of infection control and emergency preparedness at FHI, says that the Finnish Institute of Public Health reports that they have seen an increase in infection among young people after the summer.
– It is probably due to a spread of delta virus and reopening of society. After an increase in infection, there is usually an increase in the number of admissions a few weeks later. This is probably what we see in Finland now, he says.
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He believes there is not an alarming increase they are seeing in Finland now.
– In total, 36 inpatients are not very many. Finland has been at the same level as Norway throughout the pandemic and now they are a little over, but not much. We see that they have contracted a number of infections related to the unvaccinated. They are a little behind when it comes to vaccine coverage.
In total, throughout the pandemic, they estimate that they have had about five percent infection of the population. In Norway, we estimate that we have had about six percent, says the director.
In Norway, 53 patients were admitted last week and there were eight patients in the intensive care unit.
– In Norway, we now see two different groups being admitted to hospitals. Half are the younger and unvaccinated and most of the elderly who are admitted are fully vaccinated and have an underlying disease. The chance of being admitted is five times greater for those who have not been vaccinated.
