“Huge lines of people infected with covid in cramped and stuffy”: in Chelyabinsk, the influx of patients paralyzed the work of polyclinics

In Chelyabinsk, medical facilities cannot cope with the influx of patients with symptoms of a cold or coronavirus. Huge queues have become a familiar sight for the city’s medical facilities in recent days, writes 74.RU.

The portal publishes photos and videos from the overcrowded corridors of clinics.

According to eyewitnesses, there are no conditions for admission in hospitals. “People are standing with a fever, with a cough, in the basement. It’s cold, there aren’t even benches. All these people are standing in line, the reception is carried out in three rooms: a PCR smear, a therapist and the issuance of medicines, ”complain visitors.

Problems are observed, including in hospital No. 8, OKB No. 3. And in polyclinic No. 5, sick people sit in line for six hours, the patients themselves said. According to them, “they are sitting with a positive and negative PCR test, a temperature under 39, a terrible cough, and all in one queue.” At the same time, there is no opportunity to call a doctor at home, since it’s simply not possible to get through to the hospital for hours, and if you’re lucky, they will answer: “Come on your own.”

The portal reports that queues have formed not only in adult clinics. So, in the children’s hospital No. 2 of the MAUZ Children’s City Clinical Hospital No. 8, parents with children also had to sit for six hours in the morning. “Adults and children sat on the floor. Quite small ones already slept and yelled. The stuffiness is incredible,” people complain.

There are no comments from the regional Ministry of Health yet.

It should be noted that 3,433 new cases of coronavirus infection were detected in the South Urals per day, including 572 schoolchildren.