Only four beds have remained empty in the central intensive care at the University Clinical Center of Kosovo (QKUK), as the other 21 beds are occupied by patients with very serious health conditions as a result of infection with COVID-19.
Of these patients, 8 people are intubated, 10 are on CPAP and 3 with a simple oxygen mask. This is what the anesthesiologist in the Central Intensive Care Medicine, Mentor Alimusa, told KosovaPress, who says that in the last wave of COVID-19, 45 patients have been treated so far.
Alimusa emphasizes that in addition to the 17 beds in the MIQ unit for the treatment of patients with COVID, 9 beds of the ORL Clinic have been added.
"While we are talking in the Central Intensive Care Medicine, 21 patients are present, 8 of them are intubated, 10 are with a CPAP mask, while 3 are with a simple oxygen mask. The condition of patients in Intensive Care, the very word intensive means that they are more serious patients in relation to others and they are the most serious patients who are brought from all over Kosovo and have Central Intensive Care as their reference center. The condition of the patients is really serious...
With the increase in the number of cases with COVID, the structures of ShSKUK and MIQ have been mobilized and very quickly managed to prepare 26 beds. 17 beds are in the old Intensive Care that was earlier when we prepared them where all respirators can be connected and 9 other cases are in the ENT unit which is attached to the Intensive Care for COVID, which in total are 26 beds with possibility of connection and respirators", emphasized Alimusa.
Alimusa says that unlike other variants in this clinic are already seeking hospital treatment middle-aged patients starting from 40 years onwards.
According to the anesthesiologist, Alimusa is concerned that currently patients hospitalized in the Central Intensive Care Unit have fewer comorbidities, compared to patients with other variants of the coronavirus.
"In the Delta variant, we have a difference from the previous variants, where in this case, the most common age in Intensive Care is the age of 40 to 60 years old, excluding the cases where from the Gynecology Clinic, where we have transferred some cases who have been pregnant since were younger than 40 years old...
In this variant, since the age is also younger, the associated diseases are less compared to the last time, some of them are associated with hypertension, diabetes are the two most frequent diseases that accompany these cases", said Alimusa.
In the Central Intensive Care, out of all hospitalized patients, only two patients have been vaccinated, one was vaccinated only with the first dose, while currently in this clinic there is a patient who has been immunized with two doses of the vaccine.
According to Alimusa, the condition of these vaccinated patients has been more stable.
"In Intensive Care until now, all the patients who have been hospitalized in Intensive Care since the opening until now, 1 patient has had one dose of vaccine, and now at the moment we have 1 patient who is on two doses of AstraZeneca, but the condition of this patient is calmer compared to other patients, all other patients who were admitted to the Central Intensive Care Unit were unvaccinated", emphasized the anesthesiologist of the Central Intensive Care Unit.
Oxygen is the main therapy mainly for patients hospitalized in Intensive Care, so this Clinic says that the supply situation is stable.
"Oxygen pressure is monitored 24 hours a day, and so far at this moment we are talking about, we have not had any such problem... In the Central Intensive Care Medicine, we are supplied with all the medications that we prescribe during the treatment of patients, starting with oxygenation is regular, respirators as well as monitoring", stressed Alimusa.
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