(ANSA) – ROME, OCTOBER 30 – The Greek Ministry of Health has announced that it has entered into agreements with five private clinics in Thessaloniki, Larissa and Volos for 296 beds that will welcome patients affected by Covid but also by other diseases, after the hospitals in these areas, where infections are particularly high, they have reached their reception limits.
Yesterday – writes Kathimerini – 3,543 new cases were registered in the country, of which 661 in Thessaloniki, 246 in Larissa and 148 in Volos, the latter two small cities. With a low percentage of vaccinated, these areas of the country have become the most problematic; Attica, the region of Athens where about half of the Hellenic population lives (around 11 million in all), recorded 599 new infections in the same 24 hours.
In the northern Macedonia-Thrace region, ICU places are 100% full; there are 910 patients affected by Covid. Even in Thessaly, intensive care units are no longer able to accommodate other patients. “The solution is to reduce the demand for beds by expanding the vaccination obligation – the director of the intensive care department of the Papanikolaou hospital in Thessaloniki told Skai TV – There is no other way, vaccines are needed”. But the government has made it known that it intends to consider other vaccination obligations “only if the epidemiological picture changes and only for categories for which it is constitutionally admissible”. (HANDLE).
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