A tsunami of newly infected people seeking a hospital bed - new hospital facilities are opening up

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Ministry of Health opens today new hospital facilities because the number of patients they need has increased dramatically hospitalization due to covid-19. The Ministry of Free Press says that they monitor the condition of hospital beds on a daily basis to timely plan the next steps for proper care of all patients in need of hospital.

Due to the continuous increase in the number of patients in need of hospitalization, despite the fact that there are still vacancies, additional hospital facilities will be made available today, which in previous months cared for patients with a more severe clinical picture of covid 19, say from MOH for Free Press.

They add that according to the data from the clinical hospitals that come to the Ministry every day at the moment, there are vacancies at the Infectious Diseases Clinic, in the CGH "September 8" and at the TBC Institute. However, according to the information of the Free Press from the field, last night, patients for hospitalization, with multiple comorbidities and low saturation, were rejected for hospitalization in the CGH "September 8" and the Infectious Diseases Clinic due to their fullness.

In kovid centers in Skopje A total of 174 patients were hospitalized at the Clinic for Infectious Diseases, in the CGH "September 8" and in TBC. 576 patients are hospitalized in the infectious wards and covid centers across the country and there are 183 vacancies.

The omicron variant of the coronavirus, although it has milder symptoms and is usually treated at home, with visits to day hospitals and family clinics, still in more than 20 thousand active cases, the number of those who need hospitalization is increasing.

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