Famagusta hospital, the reference hospital for coronavirus cases, is currently 99 per cent full, its medical director Amalia Hadjiyianni said on Monday.By Monday night 284 people were in hospital with coronavirus complications islandwide, up from 270 earlier in the day....
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Coronavirus: Hospitals, already under strain, set to see numbers increase (Updated)
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Re: Coronavirus: Hospitals, already under strain, set to see numbers increase (Updated)
This is the most important stat.
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Re: Coronavirus: Hospitals, already under strain, set to see numbers increase (Updated)
Obviously this is bad news all round, and especially for those people who have had operations cancelled until a future date because the wards / beds are needed for more and more Covid cases.
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Re: Coronavirus: Hospitals, already under strain, set to see numbers increase (Updated)
Well new cases drive hospital admissions and hospital numbers drive deaths . Certainly in most countries the three are directly related and people like SAGE in the UK model it on a regular basis. The hope that younger people might catch it but not need hospital treatment doesn’t appear to be happening here .
Cyprus is on the one hand paying for a lack of investment in public healthcare apart from hospital wages . Since 1993 investment has dropped well below inflation every year with successive governments preferring for the population to insure themselves with private healthcare , fine in normal times but not in a pandemic. Cyprus has tumbled down the table in healthcare investment per head of population from being one of the stars. On the other until GESY it had a lack of general practitioners outside of the General Hospital with there being no requirement to be referred to a specialist. If you had a pain in your chest you went to a cardiologist straight away and a pain in the bottom well you know where you went. In places like the UK if you contact your GP with Covid symptoms you are sent a kit to help you deal with it at home including a blood oxygen monitor. Only when this drops alarmingly do you get an ambulance and go to hospital . The minister of Health here has highlighted this issue on several occasions pointing out that many people in hospital here wouldn’t be in another EU country . However I don’t think kits have made an appearance as yet. A useful stat would be the number of admissions and discharges each day .
Cyprus is on the one hand paying for a lack of investment in public healthcare apart from hospital wages . Since 1993 investment has dropped well below inflation every year with successive governments preferring for the population to insure themselves with private healthcare , fine in normal times but not in a pandemic. Cyprus has tumbled down the table in healthcare investment per head of population from being one of the stars. On the other until GESY it had a lack of general practitioners outside of the General Hospital with there being no requirement to be referred to a specialist. If you had a pain in your chest you went to a cardiologist straight away and a pain in the bottom well you know where you went. In places like the UK if you contact your GP with Covid symptoms you are sent a kit to help you deal with it at home including a blood oxygen monitor. Only when this drops alarmingly do you get an ambulance and go to hospital . The minister of Health here has highlighted this issue on several occasions pointing out that many people in hospital here wouldn’t be in another EU country . However I don’t think kits have made an appearance as yet. A useful stat would be the number of admissions and discharges each day .
