Increase in corona patients in hospital by 10% per day | Inland

“The number of infected patients admitted rose by more than 10 percent per day last week,” said Ernst Kuipers, chairman of the National Acute Care Network. “It leads to considerable crowds, especially at hospitals in the west of the country.”

According to him, this fuss is exacerbated by the large number of patients who report with complaints that may fit Covid-19. “In the first instance, they have to be placed in isolation pending a test result,” says Kuipers.

Situation far from peak

The increase in absolute numbers is still small on the government’s corona dashboard. Even thirty patients per day is still out of proportion to the numbers during the peak in March and April, when sometimes four or five hundred patients were admitted.

Doctors are increasingly choosing to allow vulnerable people to have a rest at home. Moreover, it is much better known which medicines and treatment methods can be effective at an early stage. This can prevent intensive care admissions.

Ic’s

The intensive care unit (IC) was the ‘bottleneck’ during the corona peak. There are now a maximum of 1,700 places available, of which about a thousand are available for corona patients if we do not want to interfere with regular care too much (there are now about seven hundred non-corona patients).

The ‘occupancy rate’ is therefore lower than 10 percent in terms of corona. Problems are thus far away, but due to the increasing infections, especially in the west, and the chronic fatigue among hospital staff, the care managers are vigilant.

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