All serious COVID-19 cases to be transported to Budapest

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The Operative Board have put out two important instructions concerning the Hungarian health care system.

Masked ventilation in hospice-palliative care, and respiratory aspiration in neonatalogical care, however, remained in the instructions, meaning that PCR tests must be done before these treatments, but these are not entirely realistic either.

The other provisions were announced on May 8 and were written by Cecília Müller, and approved by Miklós Kásler, minister of the Ministry of Human Resources.

This new provision states that the National Hematology and Infectology Institute of the Southern Pest Central Hospital, as well as the National Korányi Pulmonology Institute, will treat moderate, severe or critical patients, suffering from COVID-19. Any patients suspected or confirmed of having the new coronavirus have to be taken to either of the hospitals mentioned above if they are in the condition to be transported.

This is, however, not mindful of the patients at all. Even a quick trip for a CAT scan could be harmful and may risk a patient in serious condition. Critical patients can only be transported with good reason, good reason meaning that their current location cannot provide proper treatment or therapy that would be required for recovery.

But the new provision would have critical patients be transported even if they can be treated appropriately at their current hospital.

In Hungary, patient transport is currently only possible on the ground, which means that in some cases, patients would have to be driven through half the country. Transportation via helicopter is not possible, because neither of the hospitals has a landing area; current rules prohibit it, and their disinfection would be difficult afterwards.

Source: https://rontgen.444.hu/

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