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Health Minister Filipche: Skopje is the biggest COVID-19 hotspot and I urge the citizens to obey all the measures

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I ask for strong support from the citizens for the health workers, I ask for understanding and patience about the cancelation of the regular medical interventions. We are expecting the number of patients at hospitals to surpass the number of the patients who recover this week, but we have a plan on how to manage that. When this period is over, we are expecting a decrease in the number of hospitalized patients, stressed the Health Minster Filipche at today’s press conference.

In the past period, the whole focus was on the clinical part and the resources management. In this phase, said Filipche, health authorities will have to be organized and mobilized with all of their available assets.

-Since yesterday, 54 doctors and nurses have arrived in Skopje at the “8th of September” clinic to help with the pressure there was, and since then was decreased. A plan has already been made for the next rotations, re-allocation of personnel from all hospitals and healthcare hospitals in the country – informed Filipche.

Regarding the election process, he said there still certain dilemmas regarding the implementation of the voting proceduresfor people in self-isolation and for people that will have to vote at their homes, meaning the implementation of the health protocols and that is the only thing that will have to be applied.

For now, there are no plans to reintroduce the restrictive measures, but that is not excluded.

Regarding the treatment of patients with dexamethasone, dr. Milena Stevanovic, the Director of the Clinic for Infectious Diseases, said that they have seen serious benefit of this medicine when combined with other antibiotic therapies.

When it comes to the mortality rate, Dr. Stevanovic said that most of the patients that have died at the Clinic were brought after 15 days of self-treatment at home, without any consultations with a doctor.

-According to our calculations, at least 50% of these people were brought in too late for treatment. The outcome would have been different if they had consulted their doctor who would be monitoring their condition. The sickness has unknown pathophysiology – said the doctor.

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