For several days now, Bolesławiec county hospital has recorded a decline in the number of hospitalizations of patients infected with SARS-CoV-2. (This applies both to patients who require ventilators and to those who do not require such intensive treatment.)

What is more, coronavirus carriers usually come to the Bolesławiec ZOZ because of another infection or another illness. They are often people with multiple health conditions or elderly people.

As of March 7:

  • 48 patients infected with SARS-CoV-2,
  • 6 patients on ventilators:
    • 2 in the intensive care unit,
    • 4 outside the intensive care unit.

The situation is good enough that the COVID ward will be closed at the end of March this year. (More on this topic in the article: The COVID Ward in Bolesławiec Will Be Closed. We Know When.)

What does this mean for patients from Bolesławiec County?

The availability of the Bolesławiec facility for patients not infected with coronavirus will increase. This is good news for residents, especially since, as Kamil Barczyk, head of the ZOZ, reports, the hospital has recently been admitting many uninfected patients in serious condition because either they did not have access to treatment during the pandemic or diagnosis or prevention failed. Unfortunately, a significant group among these patients consists of people who have developed cancer.

As a result, the number of beds in wards such as the following will increase:

  • neurology,
  • internal medicine,
  • infectious diseases,
  • intensive care.

There will also be greater access to surgical services.

What about the modular hospital?

“It certainly won’t stand empty,” K. Barczyk assures us. It is already known that patients with internal medicine and neurological conditions will be treated there.

What do you think? We invite you to join the discussion.