Beros: Everyone is Supposed to Make Maximum Contribution

ZAGREB, Oct 27, 2020 – Health Minister Vili Beros said on Tuesday that his announcement of mobilising the health system means that every health worker has to take the current situation seriously and make a maximum contribution to the fight against the coronavirus epidemic.

“That means that each worker in the healthcare system has to take this situation seriously and that everyone, including myself, has to make a maximum contribution to efforts to overcome this situation,” Beros told N1 television.

He explained that plans exist to gradually activate the health system considering the increase in new infections. “Today we had the highest daily number of (COVID-related) deaths and we have to adapt all our capacities to respond to this challenge,” he said.

He recalled that all primary intensive care centres have been set up in in Zagreb, Rijeka, Split and Osijek and that regions are obliged to organise secondary and tertiary centres.

“As existing capacities are being filled in (Zagreb’s) Dubrava Hospital, new ones are being added and for now it is under control. In the spring already we said that we would be able to organise 250-300 ventilators that are arriving gradually to hospitals and  to distribute personnel, and we also have ta field hospital,” he said.

Beros underlined that since this morning the procurement of oxygen supplies, which are significantly more important now, has been organised. The authorities are also considering the providing of possible oxygen supplies for the Arena hall in Zagreb, which has been turned into a field hospital.

It remains to be seen how many doctors, nurses, carers will be infected or in self-isolation

“I think the health system has sufficient reserve capacities to adequately care for everyone but the question is how many doctors, nurses and carers will become infected or have to self-isolate. That is why we have established a register of health workers who have recovered from Covid-19 and who are seropositive. They are the basis of our future fight,” he said.

Other assistant staff are being trained – medical students in their last year and future nurses. Also, institutions are calling for the urgent employment of carers of whom 1,000 are currently registered as unemployed.

“That is important for the homogenisation of the people, to realise that the virus is not a hoax, it is not a global conspiracy. The virus is causing citizens to become ill by the day and unfortunately today 18 people have died. That is a black record but if we observe it in the context of the number of people who are infected and hospitalised, then that is not unexpected,” said Beros.

Today’s lower number of new infections does not necessarily mean that this is the result of the latest measures, they will only be able to be analysed in a week or two.

An inspection is still underway in Dubrava Hospital and based on the preliminary results no significant ommissions occurred there, said Beros.

 

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