Seven hospitals are turning away patients with the new crown, Russia's healthcare system is paralyzed, and the number of infected people has surpassed 2 million.
Hospitals are overcrowded places where all patients with the new crown are sent for isolation and treatment, but as more and more infected patients show up, the hospital healthcare system is under enormous pressure. In many countries, hospitals are no longer equipped enough to support their efforts to isolate patients due to the large base of infections, and such a thorny problem is not unique to one country.
The number of infections in Russia has once again been pushed to a peak with the onset of winter, but the country's medical equipment is already nearing capacity, and many hospital staff say they are overstretched, with hospitals overwhelmed with patients. One infected kindergarten nurse in a mountainous region of Russia called 120 when she felt sick, but it was four days before she found a free bed in a hospital. She said she was pulled into an ambulance and transferred to several hospitals, but they refused to take her because they had no more beds, so she had no choice but to go home.
When the nurse was interviewed by the media, she said she had been through hell, with doctors confirming that she was infected with the new strain but rejecting her application for hospitalization until she made local news headlines and a hospital finally accepted her. This is just the tip of the iceberg, there are so many we can't see, have those patients ever had to ask for help like that nurse?
Russia's hospitals are 81 percent full, but the number of infections is not declining, and is even growing, a situation that could get much worse if the epidemic is not effectively controlled. Russia now has more than 2 million cases and 35,000 deaths, and the figures released globally are actually conservative estimates, and the real situation is feared to be much more serious than that.
The corridors of Russian hospitals are filled with patients with new crowns, and people who have died are stacked in black bags in morgues, ambulances are rushing in and out of hospitals, and there are even signs saying "insufficient stock of medicines" at the pickup areas, which is the state of the country, even in such a serious situation.
The rest of Russia is still simply telling people to wear masks, restricting the hours of hotels and restaurants, and asking the elderly to quarantine themselves, with no further regulations. These self-regulatory regulations are not enough to effectively control the epidemic, and to do so, the government must issue a strict home order and take effective management measures to eliminate the possibility of epidemic transmission.