The number of admissions with coronary heart disease in the Capital Region has quadrupled since the beginning of December.
Status Tuesday morning is 389 inpatients, the region said in a press release. At the beginning of December, the number was 103.
The many patients means that one has gone through the ceiling in relation to the previous plans that the region had to have room for corona patients. The region is now working to expand capacity.
– The number of covid patients has blown up the contingency plan for admissions. The region’s crisis management is working to expand capacity and ensure that the hospitals can accommodate both the covid patients and all the other patients who need to be treated, writes the Capital Region.
Last week, the region decided to postpone all non-acute treatments from December 21 and three weeks onwards. It was to create more space for corona patients.
The region originally had a four-step contingency plan. It went up to 360 admissions. Therefore, work is now underway on a next step so that there is room for even more patients.
The region is considering, among other things, whether it is possible to transfer patients to another region. This is what Deputy Director Kristian Antonsen tells DR.
– It is a concrete consideration we make. We are in dialogue with some of the regions that are less pressured than we are at the moment. There we discuss, among other things, the transfer of patients, he says to DR.
The number of patients is likely to increase further in the coming days. Dder is typically a delay of 10-14 days, from people being infected until they are hospitalized.
The region will hold a press conference on the situation on Tuesday at 2 p.m.
The chair of the regional council is Sophie Hæstorp Andersen (S), Dorthe Crüger, executive vice president of medical medicine and Kristian Antonsen, deputy director.
The number of patients with coronavirus nationwide was 713 patients on Monday. This is the highest number during the corona outbreak.
Thus, just over half of those admitted are to a hospital in the Capital Region.
Source: The Nordic Page