Europeans are enjoying the gradual easing of coronavirus lockdown measures, but in hospitals they are already preparing for the next wave of infections.
FILE PHOTO: A nurse is seen in the coronavirus disease unit at the CHR Centre Hospitalier Regional de la Citadelle Hospital in Liege, Belgium, June 16, 2020. REUTERS/Yves Herman
“We need a healthcare army,” said Maurizio Cecconi, president-elect of the European Society of Intensive Care Medicine , which brings together medics from around the world who work in wards with extremely ill patients. Many countries were caught unprepared by the COVID-19 pandemic in March and April, and hastily retrained medics to work with patients with severe cases of the disease, to ramp up numbers and replace those who fell sick.
Many have attended crash courses on how to handle COVID-19 patients, said Jozef Kesecioglu, president of ESICM and head of intensive care at the University Medical Center of Utrecht, in the Netherlands. He plans to call back the same people to offer them more training. Under normal circumstances, intensive care workers undergo years of training but he said: “We should not wait until the new wave comes, we should give them regular training.”
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