The ICU of the Kozani hospital had to be closed because it was left with only two doctors. Instead, it stays open with doctors working day and night, and because it was open a child was saved.
“If he had closed the 15.5-year-old boy who was brought in on the morning of Holy Wednesday almost dead with poisoning from a large amount of paraflo (car antifreeze) he would have died,” states the president of POEDIN Michalis Giannakos in his statement.
He describes how with superhuman efforts the doctors saved the child and emphasizes that “it proves once again how important the operation of hospital ICUs is”.
The statement of Michalis Giannakos
“The 6-bed ICU of the Kozani hospital, 4 of which are in operation due to chronic shortages of doctors, should normally be closed because now it is left with only two doctors. It didn’t close because the two doctors work day and night without stopping. Luckily it didn’t close.
If he closed the 15.5 year old boy who was brought in on the morning of Holy Wednesday almost dead with poisoning from a large amount of paraflu (car antifreeze) he would have died. The boy was rushed to hospital almost dead and it took a concerted titanic effort to save him from all involved.
The director of the ICU was called from his home since he was not working. Together with the other doctors and nursing staff of the Kozani hospital, they fought to save the child. He was admitted to the ICU of the hospital which was staffed by two doctors. A titanic effort was made to remove the child from everyone. Well done to the poison center, to the police, to the pharmacy, to the administration, to all the staff of the Kozani hospital who, with coordinated efforts in all the country’s hospitals, found the hard-to-find doses of the required antidote. It is enough to imagine that in the first hours until the antidote was administered they administered whiskey to the child which acts as an antidote.
Well done to all of you. But the child is alive because the ICU remained open. The child was hospitalized there for 24 hours until he stabilized. Then he was transferred to the ICU of HIPPOKRATEIUS THESSALONIKI, the only one in Northern Greece for children.
That day, two patients were intubated at the Kozani hospital. In the case of the boy, it is proven once again how important the functioning of hospital ICUs is. How important it is to have antidotes available in nearby hospitals so that we don’t have to search all over the country. Even for the use of car antifreeze, antidotes are needed, something that seems unheard of to many. Especially anti-inflammatory serums now that summer is coming.”
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