23-year-old new mother with Covid is in ICU in Nis: Today, Crisis HQ in that city to hold meeting

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Director of the University Clinical Center Nis, Professor Dr. Zoran Perisic, says that 165 Covid patients are hospitalized in that health institution, among them four pregnant women and women who had just given birth. One of them, who is only 23 years old, is in the intensive care unit after giving birth by c-section, and an example of how a Covid patient's condition can suddenly deteriorate, added Perisic.

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Perisic told RTS that three hospitalized pregnant women and new mothers are in the Gynecology Ward, while one is in the new Clinical Center, in the intensive care unit.

"That patient is an example of how abruptly the coronavirus disease can change the condition (of a patient). A young woman, 23 years old, without any diseases, unfortunately in the ninth month of pregnancy became infected with Covid. The situation was stable, suddenly it deteriorated and we decided to perform a caesarean section," said Perisic.

He added that a healthy girl weighing 3,400 grams was born.

"We had to return the mother to intensive care immediately, because her saturation dropped from 90 to 70 percent within 15 minutes. She is now also well and is slowly moving towards recovery," the doctor said and added that this is an example of how the disease can suddenly deteriorate.

The hospital is not working at full capacity

He pointed out that precisely because of the increasing number of patients who require hospital treatment, they cannot perform surgeries at full capacity and that all "cold surgeries", i.e. those that are not urgent are being postponed.

"There is a saying that a healthy person has a thousand wishes, while a sick person has only one. And the fact that someone has a hernia and that is the only disease they have and need to have surgery, unfortunately, that is one of the biggest problems in their life," Perisic added.

In addition, he said, some orthopedic surgeries can be postponed and put on a waiting list.

"But all those people of various ages who are waiting for an artificial hip or knee, it is now clear that they will not get it even in a year, even though we have increased the number of operating rooms. They will have to wait for us to get out of the Covid times and start clearing up the waiting lists," said the doctor.

He stressed that the Clinical Center in Nis will take care of all emergency patients.

"No emergency patient will be left without care, operations that can be postponed without endangering a patient's life will be postponed," concluded Dr. Perisic.

City Headquarters for Emergency Situations to meet

Due to the unfavorable epidemiological situation in Nis, the City Headquarters for Emergency Situations is meeting. Professor Dr. Zoran Perisic said that the session will analyze what has been done in the past few days and whether it is necessary to adopt some new measures that will primarily refer to schools, but also see how existing measures are applied.

"We have good measures brought by the Republic Crisis HQ that should be implemented and their implementation should be supervised," added Dr. Perisic.

(Telegraf.rs)