Clinic

The first time Athens' Evangelismos Hospital was on duty to accept emergency cases in June, it treated 908 people. Doctors decided that 189 needed hospitalization. Almost unheard of for a Greek hospital, none of them had to lie on gurneys - also called "supplementary beds" - in some corridor instead of a room.

Borys Todurov has just finished an operation at the main public cardiology clinic in Kyiv, despite the constant threat of power outages.

Like many other hospitals all over Ukraine, the capital's clinics have been struggling to keep working amid Russian attacks on the country's electricity system.

Retirements of qualified personnel, lack of sufficient hirings to replace them and the migration of mostly young doctors, combined with the exodus of other personnel well ahead of retirement, are threatening the quality of care at state hospitals, health workers say.

"I kindly ask the citizens, and as of today it has been officially decided, that everyone must report to the health centers first, to do the initial diagnostics there, that is what practically stuck the work in the admission and triage clinics in the hospitals themselves," the director of the Infectious Diseases Clinic said.

A private Athens clinic that was shut down following a coronavirus outbreak last week said it had "adhered religiously" to the safety instructions issued by Greece's National Public Health Organization (EODY) to keep patients from getting infected with the coronavirus.

A judicial investigation into a private Athens clinic that was shut down following a coronavirus outbreak last week was in full swing on Tuesday, as a fourth patient from the facility died of Covid-19 earlier in the day.

In Serbia, 1.893 people were tested in the last 24 hours, 238 of which were positive, Darija Kisic Tepavcevic, Deputy Director of the Batut Institute, told a news conference.
2,107 patients were hospitalized and 136 were on the respirator.

All the deceased are male patients.
At the moment, there are 112 people on respirators.

State Secretary at the Ministry of Health Berislav Vekic said today that citizens who experience symptoms suggestive of coronavirus such as dry cough, sore throat or fever should report to the nearest health center where they will be examined and be returned to home isolation or referred for hospital treatment.

"Don't wait for 3, 5, 7, 10 days to pass by itself, believe me, it won't. You will come with a harder clinical picture", Dr Goran Stevanovic explains.
"This is a struggle for all of us," says Goran Stevanovic, Director of the Belgrade Clinic for Infectious Disease.
He stated that we need temporary hospitals because such healthcare facilities do not exist anywhere in the world.