In St. Petersburg patients with the coronavirus began to take 42nd clinic

the St. Petersburg hospital No. 42, which relates to the city hospital No. 20, were reorganized for the patients from COVID-19. Its doors for coronavirus patients, it was opened on 5 June, told the correspondent of “Rosbalt”, the head physician of hospital No. 20 Tatiana Surovtseva.

Under the hospital for the infected in the clinic in the Central district converted four floors. Instead of doctors ‘ offices were made by the chamber in one or two places, which have access to oxygen. Only in the clinic for 220 beds, 20 of them intensive care. Under the intensive care unit in a converted pool on the ground floor — a huge area with high ceilings was rebuilt according to the medproekt.

“the staff of the clinic retired, people do not want to work in such conditions, so we transferred 30 people from the 20-th hospital. Of course, in 220 patients physicians are simply not enough, one shift needs a crew of at least 120 people is a nurse, housekeeper, of barmaids, nurses, cleaning ladies,” — said Surovtseva.

According to her, the first day in a hospital have brought patients with medium and severe form of coronavirus.

Recall, for June 6 in St. Petersburg revealed 18 thousand 169 cases of infection, was discharged 7 thousand 462 patients, 346 died.

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