SDSM Urges Liability over COVID Patient Admission Issue as Patient Dies

Citing information being received by it, SDSM said on Sunday the Infectious Diseases Clinic’s Intensive Care Ward was not open and not admitting COVID patients who needed ventilator support.

According to a report obtained by the party, the Clinic’s head, Fadil Cana, has informed the My Appointment system that the Intensive Care Ward was not functional, adding, “Does this mean that if any patient needs ventilator treatment, they will not be admitted? Are perhaps such patients being admitted to the Clinic of Traumatology, Orthopaedic Diseases, Anaesthesia, Resuscitation, Intensive Care, and Emergency Centre?”

For Sitel, Cana, however, denied all accusations, saying all patients were receiving treatment.

Several hours later, Sloboden Pecat reported that a female patient with COVID and leukaemia that hadn’t been admitted to the two Clinics because the Infectious Diseases Clinic’s Ward, where there were five beds, was being renovated, while the Clinic of Traumatology, Orthopaedic Diseases, Anaesthesia, Resuscitation, Intensive Care, and Emergency Centre didn’t have an isolated area for COVID patients, had died.

She was instead taken to the Haematology Clinic, which requested for her to receive ventilator support, but the other two Clinics didn’t have that option for the aforementioned reasons. SDSM urged answers and liability again.