On Friday, the HED at the Bródno Hospital lacked 22 beds for patients, and at the Bielański Hospital – 61, which had to be supplemented with extra beds. Data from the Hospital Information System show the difficult situation of Warsaw institutions, which are struggling with the third wave of the pandemic. The overcrowded hospitals were supposed to get relieved by the facility in Ursynów, which opened in February, but there are no doctors and nurses to fill it up. As a result, the Southern Hospital – out of 300 available beds – can now admit only a few dozen patients. The City Hall, in cooperation with the Masovian Voivode, is looking for medical staff, but these are missing in the entire country.

“We are dealing with a third, quite strong wave of the Covid-19 epidemic, which was overlapped by additional factors. First, many non-covid patients simply had to return to hospitals for various types of procedures, operations postponed. This year was quite difficult, because many patients, forced by the situation or voluntarily, gave up diagnostics and treatment. Today it comes back with redoubled strength. At the moment, we have hospitals full of non-covid patients, and in addition, there is a need for more beds for Covid-19 patients, which is growing intensively,” Renata Kaznowska, vice-president of the Capital City of Warsaw, responsible, inter alia, for the area of ​​municipal health policy, said.

The South Hospital is one of the eight temporary hospitals in Mazovia established under the Covid bed protection plan. With a complete set of doctors, nurses, and medical staff, it is able to see about 300 patients, including 80 in intensive care.

“We and the voivode are looking for doctors and medics to service this hospital. If there are willing and free medics, we, of course, encourage, advertise and search. I hope that we will be able to gradually fill this hospital with patients,” the vice-president of Warsaw added.

(Newseria)