The adventure of a 6-year-old boy from Grevena, who died shortly after an adventurous journey, highlighted the nervous problem of several intensive care unit children in our country. Recall that the boy was delivered intubated from the Grevin hospital.– after he had a heart attack suffer at the University Hospital of Patras in Rio.

Although the nearest hospital intensive care unit For children, it was Hippocrates of Thessaloniki, the last one, he could not take on a 6-year-old, as he was busy all 8 beds Pediatric Intensive Care Unit what supplies. The ambulance carrying the 6-year-old had a mechanical failure and had to be replaced by another vehicle from the EKAV station in Ioannina. Two days after his transportation to Rio, It was announced that a 6-year-old child was brain dead..

According to with her details EVER (Panhellenic Federation of Public Hospital Workers), 55 beds operate throughout the country intensive care unit Children’s –32 in Attica and 23 in the Region.

in eastern hospitals Macedoniaher Epirus, Mr. Thessaly, Central Greece and the islands (except Crete) are not available intensive care unit Children’s. All children requiring hospitalization are transferred to intensive care unit

In fact, all of Northern Greece relies on eight pediatric intensive care beds at Hippocrates (the hospital also has 2 beds intensive care unit COVID and 2 more for newborns). Since viral and respiratory infections started this year with intensity, 8 hippocratic beds this isI almost always busy.

The intubated girl, accompanied by a doctor, was taken by road to Aktio and air transportation to Attica was made from there. Also on Saturday, January 7, a two-year-old boy who had been intubated at Drama General Hospital with a severe respiratory infection was brought in with air transportationin the Children’s “Aglaya Kyriakou”.

A similar case occurred with a 3-year-old boy from Kozani who developed pneumonia and was transferred a few days ago from air transportation in Pedon Pentelis. His two younger brothers were in different medical institutions – ACHEPA Thessaloniki and Mamacio Kozanis (in single beds).

” air transportation they reduce the chances of a good outcome of the incident”

OUR Andrew Mazarakiscardiologist and deputy director of the University Hospital of Patras in Rio, explains to “K” that the life of an intubated… he hangs at least from the thread, “imagine this person having to travel a long distance on the road until they get to the hospital,” he notes, adding that the long travel time greatly reduces the chances of a good outcome in an intubation incident.

Mr. Mazarakis explains that the problem of several pediatricians intensive care unit “expands” in many directions because, as he says, what our country mostly lacks are doctors with specialized knowledge in intensive care who can deal with incidents in the hospital and also accompany the child if deemed necessary. “Do you think they might attend air transportation doctors working in hospitals in the region, who are often young colleagues in their practice, or rural? They may encounter a critical moment inside the helicopter or in vehicle for the streetlike if something goes wrong with the car?”

Mr. Mazarakis emphasizes that this winter, which is characterized by a major outbreak of respiratory viruses, the issue of a shortage of pediatric intensive care beds is being raised again care. ” intensive care unit adults increased in her years pandemic and have been updated in many ways. Now the burden must fall on pediatric care.”

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OUR Andrew Eliadesits director intensive care unit Children in the same hospital, he believes that things are much better than in the past. As he says to “K”: “Vehicles are now bigger and better, and their activation is faster. However, in an island country like ours, these reflexes and speed should to they are excellent. And, of course, 8 children’s beds intensive care unit there are very few of them in all of Northern Greece.”

In any case, according to Mr. IliadChildren’s beds intensive care unit they cannot follow the logic of creating new beds, as is the case with beds intensive care unit for adults.

“This is a difficult question,” Mr. Eliades and explains: “Resuscitation pediatricians are a scarce specialty. For the development of beds intensive care unit children need neurosurgeons and many specialties. CHILDREN’S hospitals in the region are in many cases difficult understaffed and they do not have elementary specialties and machines.”

A typical case of Larisa

Larissa University Hospital is a very typical case of the slow pace at which the creation of pediatric beds is “unlocked”. ICU in Greece. staff the hospital in question has been fighting for 20 years to establish them, given that there is not a single bed in Central Greece intensive care unit Children’s.

In fact, in 2010 the Stavros Niarchos Foundation made a donation towards the creation of this intensive care unitbut taking into account the fact that the deadlines for accepting the donation and its planning were not met intensive care unit, the donation was eventually lost. It is noted that a polyclinic has been operating in this hospital since 2003. MAF -Unit ism rose Care-, which is essentially the preceding stage before entering the intensive care unit but also the next one, when the patient comes out of it (for a proper recovery).

Professor of Pediatrics at Thessaly University and pediatric infectious disease specialist, George SirogiannopoulosUntil recently, the director of the pediatric clinic of the university hospital, and now a specialist partner of the clinic, tells K that pediatric intensive care unit, which is expected to start operating in the summer of 2023 at the hospital, after many years of struggle to create –SS will be created thanks to a donation from a local businessman, Xenophon. Gandonia- this will play an important role not only for central Greece, but for the whole country, especially in winters like this year, when the problems in the National Child Welfare System are great.

As notes in “K”, “here she succeeded MAF with three beds to play with decongestant role for the entire region. Many times in difficult cases where transportation was required, the children came or “stopped” at MAF Larisa stabilized until they left for the hospital, where they were supposed to be treated. Unfortunately, in our country the system of resuscitation of children suffers greatly.. How many hospitals do they have? MAF how should it happen? If Hippocrates in Thessaloniki MAF which accommodates serious but controlled cases, there will be several beds for all these children who these days are difficult to transport to Rio or Athens. When a man should enter intensive care unitevery minute counts.”

Mr. Sirogiannopoulos he, in turn, emphasizes that intensive care unit they need specialized staff and hospitals with well-staffed pediatricians who are experienced. “Larisa’s pediatrics is one of those, and that is why we have been “shouting” all these years that it should be created. intensive care unit Children are here,” the professor notes and adds that perhaps one of the reasons why no new intensive care units have been launched in central and northern Greece is the long-awaited creation of a large Children’s Hospital, which is being prepared (with a donation from the Stavros Niarchos Foundation) in Thessaloniki.

A large hospital (acceptance of a donation was approved by parliament in February 2022 and is expected to start operating in 2025) will have, among other things, a large number of single beds, beds intensive care unit and MAF and six operations, one of which is cardiac surgery, etc.