Dr. Milosevic: Doctors fear, relaxing measures is one thing, but what we're seeing is something else

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It is true that the number of first examinations has decreased minimally and the number of hosptial admissions and discharges has balanced out, but the Infectious Diseases Clinic in Belgrade is still full and patients in that institution are fighting for their lives, said the deputy director of that hospital, Ivana Milosevic.

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Speaking for RTS, Ivana Milosevic asked citizens to continue to respect the measures and everything that is advised to suppress the epidemic.

As she stated, eight patients in the Infectious Diseases Clinic are on ventilators. She added that this is not the full capacity of intensive care, but that one never knows when a patients might need it.

Speaking about the relaxing of measures, she said that the doctors at the clinic have fears around this topic.

"It is one thing to soften the measures, but what we are seeing is another. I don't feel comfortable knowing that the measures will be relaxed, because nice weather is coming and people are eager to have fun. We are the ones who feel the most any violation of the measures," stressed Ivana Milosevic.

She recalled that the clinic is now working in the same mode for the second spring and says that it depends on us what the summer and spring will be like, as well as that we have learned that warm weather does not bring relief.

"The main difference is that we have the vaccine," she pointed out and said that until the majority of the population has been vaccinated, we will not be even close to returning to normal life.

She also says that the decision on whether to get vaccinated is not just a matter of measures, but a choice between life and death.

(Telegraf.rs)