The government has announced new rules to fight the pandemic, which will completely remove the care of patients with other diseases. The way to fight the fifth wave is through even stronger pre-hospital care and caring for seniors with COVID-19. According to experts from the Federation of Zielona Góra Agreement Federation, this decision will be catastrophic for patients with other diseases.
Family doctors criticize the government's new strategy to combat the pandemic
Published Jan. 22, 2022 12:36
Every patient over 60 years of age who test positive for coronavirus, regardless of how they feel, will have to be examined by a primary health care physician within 48 hours, also at home.
- This decision will completely disable POZ, and we will feel its effects for a long time - assesses the government's idea Jacek Krajewski, president of the Federation of Zielona Góra Agreement. - The new guidelines will cause a further build-up of health debt, because there will be no more time for chronically ill patients treated in our clinics, who are not now looking for care elsewhere. The decision which patient to take care of will be made by the doctor not on the basis of his or her health condition, but on the guidelines of the department. In the first place, he will be obliged, at the patient's request, to visit a person over 60 years of age with a positive test result, but e.g. with a mild course of the disease.
Many of these patients will not need home visits. During this time, other patients who require urgent advice will not have a chance to make an appointment.
- I reviewed the daily reports from the previous wave of the epidemic, only with covid I treated about 30 patients. Half of them were over 60 - says Joanna Szeląg, expert of the Federation of Zielona Góra Agreement, vice-president of the Podlasie Association of Doctors Employers PZ. - If I have a report from a chronically ill patient, I have to cancel his visit and go to the home of a Covid patient, not because there are medical indications for it, but because of the official's decision - adds Joanna Szeląg.
Meanwhile, a black scenario is expected - 60 - 70 thousand. daily omicron infections - this is an optimistic variant. Pessimistic says about 140 thousand. infections.
- Taking into account the number of staff in POZ, the age structure, the daily number of consultations for a doctor - if it is the primary health care center that is to take over the care of patients with covid, we will face a catastrophe. POZ alone will not stop the fifth wave - adds Jacek Krajewski.
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