Part of Dragisa Misovic clinic exits Covid regime: In another, 23 children are among the patients

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Djordje Lalosevic, head of the diagnostic radiological service at the Clinical Hospital Center (KBC) Dr. Dragisa Misovic, says that there are currently 91 Covid patients in Block B of that institution, of which 23 are children.

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Djordje Lalosevic has told RTS that Block A of the clinic is exiting the Covid regime today, returning to regular work, and will be open to all patients.

"That is really wonderful news and we hope that we will endure and that soon the entire hospital will become a green zone," said Lalosevic.

He stressed that Covid patients are still being cared for in Block B and that at this moment there are 91 of them in the hospital, of which 23 are children.

"The number of patients is decreasing every day because we no longer accept Covid patients," Lalosevic explained.

Since Marchof  last year when the coronavirus epidemic started in our country until today, nearly 9,000 people with Covid have been treated at KBC Dragisa Misovic. The third wave was the hardest, when they had about 4,000 patients.

"The third and fourth waves were extremely difficult. We used to have 150 examinations a day, using both scanners and X-ray machines. The patients who came to us were mostly in serious condition. Unfortunately, some of them ended up tragically," says Lalosevic.

Now, he says, that number is significantly lower - between 30 and 50 examinations a day.

"Now we have between 30 and 50 lung X-rays on a daily basis. These are bedridden patients who cannot come to the scanner. I have repeated several times so far that the scanner is the gold standard for lung examination in Covid patients, but patients who are on oxygen or who are on a ventilator, they absolutely cannot come to the scanner, or could with major complications, so they are examined with a mobile X-ray device," says Lalosevic.

Speaking about the consequences of Covid, he said that doctors are still not sure about all of them.

"We are still not sure what consequences coronavirus will have on the people who had it - whether these are changes in the lungs, we are yet to see in the coming period. But there are definitely some changes and some of our doctors are already facing that problem," Lalosevic explains.

He stressed that many non-Covid patients were unable to undergo examinations, diagnostics, and interventions during the pandemic, and that now they will be able to do that.

(Telegraf.rs)