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The coronavirus department of the Gyumri MC works with 100% overload, there is no untaken bed in the intensive care unit. Sometimes the 10 beds of the resuscitation department are cannot accommodate everyone and the treatment of the critical patients continues in the wards. The number of beds in the coronavirus department of the hospital is 70, only patients in need of oxygen are treated here.
The deputy director of the MC and the head of the coronavirus department, Armen Khachatryan, told Factor.am that the Gyumri MC receives treatment from all over Armenia, including the capital, but at the moment most of the patients are from Shirak province.
“The patients are so many and so severe that sometimes we have to take the beds in the triage department and use them․ There have been many positive test results recently. Let me bring a fresh example․ Today, we sampled 15 people, 11 of them are positive. In other words, a lot of positive data comes from our triage. There are many cases of coronavirus, and mainly serious patients are brought to our hospital. As a rule, we do not accept patients, because we don’t have enough beds,” said Khachatryan.
Currently, there is a 30-year-old patient in an extremely serious condition in the MC, here patients of different age groups receive treatment, from 20 to 90 years old.
To our question, are there any vaccinated people receiving treatment, Khachatryan detailed, “At the moment we have vaccinated patients who are receiving inpatient treatment․ We have patients who have received both doses or one dose of vaccine, but they are relatively better shape.”
He said deaths have been registered because there are extremely serious patients here, the lungs of the patients being treated in the resuscitation department are 90% more damaged.
“There are people who received home treatment, just been taken to hospital, there are people who did not receive treatment at all, and some of them came too late. This disease is a bit unpredictable in the sense that regardless of the treatment, the patient can get worse and lung disease can develop very quickly. Lungs are mainly severely damaged, as a rule 5-7% of the breathing surface of the lungs remains, that is why sometimes the disease becomes incompatible with the patients’ lives,” Khachatryan explained.
