Report from the red zone of Nizhnekamsk hospital
Press Secretary of Nizhnekamsk Health Department Yulia Skorina made a report from the red zone of the temporary infectious diseases hospital.
Before the beginning of the coronavirus epidemic, the six-story building at Akhtubinskaya street housed surgical, oncological, cardiological, therapeutic and gynecological departments. And for three months now, an infectious disease hospital has been deployed here, where patients with COVID-19 are being rescued.
On the first floor, there is a clean area where employees leave all their belongings, change into protective suits and go to the red zone. And the red zone is six floors of the hospital. On the first floor there is an emergency room where patients with a high temperature and suspected pneumonia are taken by ambulance staff. In the waiting room, a smear is taken on COVID-19 and the patient is sent to the sixth floor – there the person stays for about a day, until the results of the analysis are known. Depending on the result, the patient is transferred to other floors of the hospital.
The second floor, where the intensive care wards are located, is the hardest for me. I went to the nearest house there are two elderly men, both connected to devices of artificial ventilation of the lungs. And there is a nurse standing next to you, preparing injections. In the corridor, two nurses put an elderly grandmother, who no longer has the strength to move independently, in a wheelchair, and take her to the ward where the ventilators are located. I didn't have the moral strength to watch a woman being connected to a ventilator. As I left the Department, I could barely contain myself from crying.
Despite all the concessions, it's not over yet. And while you still need to wear masks, gloves and keep a distance. As long as it's necessary. We wish all our patients a speedy recovery from the bottom of their hearts, and our colleagues good health, strength and patience to cope with everything.