Over the last week in Kyiv, a number of hospitalized COVID-19 sick was growing, and the peak of virus is expected after Easter holidays, chief doctor of Oleksandrivska clinical hospital in Kyiv Liudmyla Antonenko reported.
“Over the past week, there has been a tendency of growth in the number of hospitalized patients in the infectious diseases wards from 10 to 17 per day. All that can happen in the near future may be cases of the disease, especially after Easter holidays, taking into account the large number of infected priests and probably parishioners,” she wrote on Facebook.
The head doctor noted that as of April 13, there were 74 patients in the infectious diseases wards at the Oleksandrivska hospital in Kyiv, 49 of them with confirmed coronavirus, 19 with suspicion, 61 with pneumonia, three in intensive care, one on mechanical ventilation.
According to Antonenko, two men 48 and 74 years old with COVID-19 diagnosis died in the hospital.
“Both received an extremely serious condition, with bilateral polysegmental total pneumonia they were immediately taken to the intensive care unit and switched to the ventilator. A 48-year-old patient was connected to an ECMO device. Doctors tried to bring him back to life for more than two weeks. As for the 74-year-old patient, we were trying to save him for a week. He had serious concomitant diseases of the cardiovascular system,” she wrote.
