Medical institutions of Vitebsk return to providing specialized assistance

19 мая 2020
The hospital departments, temporarily reassigned for the treatment of pneumonia, return to their normal working hours and usual duties. The recovered patients will be supervised by doctors in the health facilities of the region and will undergo a rehabilitation course. The Minister of Health examined the situation in the region today.

Irina Podolinskaya, head of Physiotherapy Department of Vitebsk Regional Clinical Hospital, and the whole staff went through a special course to treat pneumonia and respiratory diseases. 

The bed fund of hospitals in the northern region had to be reassigned due to the seasonal rise in respiratory infections and pneumonia. But doctors claim that their rate will decrease in the near future and Vitebsk Regional Hospital will switch to its usual working mode until May 25.

Vladimir Karanik, Minister of Health of Belarus: “I think that it’s worth establishing one basic hospital for providing immediate respiratory support. There were 200 pneumonia cases per day, now the rates have fallen to 20-30 cases in Vitebsk, which is already approaching the natural rate."

Vitebsk Region is under the personal supervision of the Minister of Health, according to the direct assignment from the Head of the State. This time the purpose of the visit is to personally verify that the situation in the region is normalizing. 

The departments of therapeutic and surgical profiles have already stopped hospitalization of non-urgent patients. The premises will be finally disinfected this weekend.

The same regime is introduced in Minsk hospitals. But the situation remains under tight control. There are enough departments, providing places for patients, medicines, ventilators.

Those who have had a serious illness will be sent for recovery in a rehabilitation center in Vitebsk Region.

The first patients will arrive in Zheleznyaki on May 20. The rehabilitation course will last for 2 weeks. The procedures will be developed taking into account the characteristics of the course of the disease.