Coronavirus: Untested patients may have infected medical staff in Pirogov

It is thought that the cause of the coronavirus infection inside Pirogov hospital is the result of emergency admissions not being tested for the virus, the director of the emergency hospital, Professor Assen Baltov, said on May 5.

A total of 28 medical professionals from the hospital have tested positive for coronavirus, 7 of which are surgeons, the director said. This happened more than a month ago and all the necessary measures have been taken since then.

Bulgaria’s Prime Minister Boyko Borissov visited the clinics and operating theatresof the hospital today. The occasion was the new neurosurgery clinic. He also went to see the new 48 channnel MRI, which costs 2,5 million BGN and was purchased with finances provided by the government in December last year.

The new MRI is used for diagnostics of patients with Covid-19. The PM asked how the disease affects the lungs. The head of the hospital explained that Covid-19 patients obligatory go through a check after the end of the treatment for the coronavirus. The head of the imagining diagnostics clinic, Associate Professor Kamelia Genova shared her impressions explaining that the doctors do a lung scan of recovered patients, who had negative PCR test results after the treatment. So far, there has not been a case where the lungs were completely cleared, she said.

The doctors said that in most cases there is a scarred tissue, fibrosis, but added that no one in the world has said so far for how long it remains.

The PM paid special attention to a special visit to the completely renovated Neurosurgery Clinic

The reason for the inspection, as the Prime Minister himself shared on his profile page, is the repair to the cost of BGN 2 million from the Energy Efficiency Fund and 3 million from the Jessica Fund, which provided modern neuro-navigation equipment and operating tables.

Prof. Nikolai Gabrovski, Head of the Neurosurgery Clinic: This is an X-ray machine that produces three-dimensional images. So by putting the patient on the table, we can load it and, like a scanner, have an image of the current state.

Although the clinic has not yet started admission of patients, it is ready to work in the new conditions. There is a buffer zone in which patients are treated before admission until it is established whether they are carriers of coronavirus or not.

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