Due primarily to public irresponsibility relating to a perception in reduced risk surrounding the coronavirus, there are virtually no free spaces in intensive care wards in northern Estonia, including Tallinn, one major hospital says.
The North Estonia Medical Center (PERH) in Tallinn says that an overall feeling of relief associated with the decline in COVID-19 infection rates does not alter the fact that intensive care units in the northern region are in a completely critical situation, and the risk of the epidemic continuing is far from over, a PERH spokesperson said Monday.
Doctors remind the public that traveling abroad on its own constitutes risk-taking, and if a trip goes ahead, to self-quarantining and self-monitoring regarding health are essential on return, BNS reports.
The patient deserves the best, while the best is not available in a situation where nurses and caregivers are overworked and exhausted. Nurses are nearing their breaking point now, President of the Estonian Nurses Union Anneli Kannus admits. She is attempting to negotiate with the hospitals and medical emergency associations for a new collective agreement one part of which would be a wage hike.
Give us hope that the coronavirus period will pass and things will become easier.
We are all waiting for properly warm weather, to be able to go out lightly dressed, feel free and meet with loved ones. As medical workers, we eagerly await and hope that the more people are vaccinated, the faster that time will come.
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0 >President Kersti Kaljulaid received her second dose of the AstraZeneca coronavirus vaccine on April 1. Source: Office of the President.
President Kersti Kaljulaid received her second dose of the AstraZeneca coronavirus vaccine on Thursday (April 1).
The president was vaccinated at the North Estonia Medical Center in Tallinn. She wrote on Facebook that she had experienced no side effects from either dose. Her first dose was administered on March 5.
Kaljulaid encouraged everyone to get vaccinated if they are given the possibility, especially as bigger deliveries of the vaccine are expected in the coming weeks.
She said: If the opportunity to vaccinate opens up, use it.
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