As Turkey yearns for Back to the pre-pandemic days, country of It seems that hospitals harbinger of good times to come. Once full with combat patients for their lives and their employees in full protected gearcoronavirus wards are mostly empty and intensive care units are hosting fewer coronavirus patients.
It’s been two years since Turkey faced abrupt risk of corona virus, with the number of cases escalate. The country was forced to build new Hospitals in Istanbul exclusively to deal with the rising number of cases. For months, health care workers have had to work long bouts, with no contact with their families.
Over the past Few weeks of Cases have decreased dramatically and of Wednesday, it was 5,529, so far below The more from 100,000 just two months ago. Mass vaccination and its spread of Omicron, a less severe strain of Coronavirus, restrict with decrease the number of cases.
Ms. Sima Kaltovan Turan Member of The Ministry of Health’s coronavirus scientific advisory board said there were “almost no patients” in Live need of Hospitalization or intensive care. toran, who also works as administrator of Emergency services at Ankara City Hospital in The number said in the Turkish capital of Both cases have seen a downward trend in The world And in turkey in The past two months.
“We have a dramatic drop in recovery here in Ankara City Hospital. The rate of people in need of Intensive care after contracting COVID-19 is down 80%. This is good news. we know This is not limited to our hospitals, and it is also the situation in Other health facilities throughout Turkey. Sure, we have positive cases, but they are mild and most of them are outpatients.” on Thursday.
Toran told them reduced Ability of Intensive care units for COVID-19 patients in The past month and that the units are now treating patients with other diseases.
I linked this sudden drop with “Efficiency and full Vaccination and the omicron variant share similar symptoms with Seasonal influenza and be less severe.” Turkey launched the vaccination program in January 2021 and since then, has managed more More than 147 million doses of Vaccines. the number of people with two doses of Vaccines exceeded 53 million, while another 27.6 million people They were given three doses of Vaccines in total.
she said that general anticipation in Scientific community is that the coronavirus will prevail more But it will be “endemic” and not epidemic. she added That next summer would increase reduce the number of cases. Experts say rise in the number of Corona virus cases in Autumn and winter are mainly associated with with people spending more time inside.
In Istanbul, the most populous in Turkey citythat was also The city with highest number of Once cases, local health authorities salute current Country in epidemic. The city Now it only has about 196 cases per 100,000 . peopleaccording to the numbers from last week of Walks. Moreover, most cases are patients who recovery after selfisolation.
Professor Kemal Memişoğlu, head of Directorate of health in The cityHe said cases had reached “the lowest levels since the pandemic began.” Memişoğlu told Demiroren News Agency (DHA) on Thursday that he expected the epidemic reduced to “seasonal disease” within a few months.
Mimişoğlu said this number of The positive cases were highest in January from the start of epidemic in turkey in March 2020 but what followed was not a mass hospitalization. “On the contrary, it was just that one in six injured people who required hospitalization.” Mimişoğlu added That numbers were still decreasing.
He pointed out that city She had about 13,000 more Hospital beds during the course of Pandemic thanks to the opening of nine new Hospitals, and did not face Which problems peak of epidemic. He cautioned, however, that hospitals may now do so face a flood of Appointments like most people Unused visits to hospitals for Non-emergency situations.
