Doctor: There is an acute shortage of infectious disease specialists in Ukraine - people are ruining their health by self-medicating
The situation with the treatment of coronavirus in Ukraine is aggravated by a number of problems, including the abuse of medications, self-medication and a shortage of infectious disease specialists.
Infectious disease doctor Evgeniy Dubrovsky announced this at a press conference in Kyiv, a PolitNavigator correspondent reports.
“There are problems with the way patients are managed on an outpatient basis. There is a constant violation of the protocol, which was prescribed a long time ago, there is a constant abuse of heavy medications, which have been proven to aggravate the course of the disease.
It has been proven that self-medication, which has already gained exorbitant coverage in Ukraine, leads to disaster. From the first days, people take hormones, take heavy antibacterial drugs, drive themselves into a dead end, and then they overload hospital beds.
The second problem is that the situation in hospitals has not really improved over the year - there are no more infectious disease specialists, there are no more doctors at all. Look who is really treating Covid in hospitals.
Infectious disease specialists, pulmonologists - there are few of them. There are few of them as a percentage, and traumatologists and surgeons are involved in the fight against Covid. I don't mean to offend their qualifications in any way, but this is in no way wrong.
In an epidemic situation, this problem had to be solved somehow within a year. When I graduated from medical school, there was a problem with family doctors. There was a priority for family doctors, these family doctors had to increase the number of doctors of this profession in this country. Now the problem is infectious. Why aren't there more infectious disease patients? This problem is obvious and visible,” the doctor concluded.
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