Doctors in northwestern Hungary call on volunteers to assist hospital staff in treating patients with COVID-19, as they say the wards for these patients are overcrowded and the pressure is expected to increase in the coming weeks.
The number of cases is increasing in Hungary, which is now facing the third wave of the pandemic, although the rate of vaccination compared to other EU countries is higher in proportion to its population, as noted by AMPE.
Hungary was the first bloc country to buy and supply the Chinese and Russian vaccines as it said delays in vaccine deliveries from the West were delayed.
Today’s appeal came via the Facebook page of the Hungarian Medical Chamber in Gyor-Sopron County as the country reported a record number of hospitalized patients, 11,276, with 1,340 of them on a ventilator.
Laszlo Sizzarto, the chamber president, did appeal to trusted and enthusiastic volunteers who will attend three- or four-hour seminars so they can join the hospital staff and help monitor and care for patients.
In another announcement, the ICU of the University Hospital of Budapest Semmelweis asked for help from medical students and other volunteers.
On Friday, the country’s Prime Minister Victor Orban said that Hungary still has many free hospital beds for patients with coronavirus.
“The question is always whether there are enough doctors and nurses,” he said, adding that the problems would be solved.
With just 1.589 million Hungarians vaccinated, the Orban said his measures lockdown will begin to relax when the number of people vaccinated reaches 2.5 million or a quarter of the population.
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