On Tuesday evening, the head of the capital’s “Victor Babes” infectious disease hospital, Simin Aisel Florescu, said that almost all beds are occupied, and specified that the children’s department is full, especially with cases of measles, influenza, Covid, etc. types of ailments, reports News.ro.

On Tuesday on Medika TV, Simin Aisel Florescu was asked what the disease situation is in the health care department she heads.

“We are working almost at full capacity. The hospital is busy, within a few free isolation beds, if patients are infected with several types of germs, but from a pathology point of view, we are practically full. The children’s ward is overcrowded especially with measles, as well as flu cases and Covid cases and other types of ailments. An incredible number are hospitalized every day, I think ten cases. (…) In the rest of the hospital, there are cases of influenza, especially in adult or elderly patients who are not yet vaccinated, cases of COVID, cases of other types of seasonal pneumonia, as well as our everyday pathology. It’s certainly becoming increasingly difficult to isolate patients in these settings from each other because obviously you can’t put a patient with one type of disease next to a patient with another infectious disease. That’s why we are fighting to accept all patients, to offer them the maximum medical support, considering that we are getting fewer and fewer, especially the average medical staff,” said Simin Aysel Florescu.

She was also asked about patients infected with several types of microbes at the same time.

“For example, we are talking about patients with influenza or COVID, or measles, who obviously need to be isolated either individually or together with patients who have the same pathology. You cannot combine the flu with Sars-Cov-2 infection and measles. On the other hand, we are talking about patients who are infected or colonized by microbes of various types. In this case, we are talking about microbes, not just viruses, as I said, but microbes that are multidrug-resistant. Such patients should be isolated practically alone. So it’s a double challenge, in addition to the large number of cases, and the existence of these cases that should be isolated, each in a different place, really represents an increasingly urgent problem,” said the head of the infectious disease hospital. “Victor Babes”.

Asked what he predicts for the coming weeks from this point of view, Simin Icel Florescu said: “Well, what can we have, other than an increase in the number of cases. In January, February, March, probably already in February we’ll peak, I think, and then in March we’ll be at this plateau, until May. This happens every year, the last three years there was a pandemic and we observed less, but now it is clear that we are returning to our old habits, so to speak, with sadness.”

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