Russian doctors, who fell asleep on the floor next to the patient’s bed, explained the situation by the need for additional help to colleagues. He transmits the words of doctors in his Telegram -channel ” Komsomolskaya Pravda “.
The doctors, due to the heavy workload, could not cope with the work, so they could not constantly be near the patient, whose condition had deteriorated sharply. Three doctors in the photo saw a message in the work chat asking for help and went to the “red zone” long before the shift began.
According to one of the doctors, tired, they lay down on the floor in the morning to observe the monitor and the patient’s condition right from the floor.
Earlier in social networks appeared a photo in which three doctors of the hospital in Sosnovy Bor in the Leningrad Region fell asleep on the floor next to a severe patient with COVID-19. Hospital No. 38 reported that constant watch near the patient is necessary because the patient had a panic attack and could harm himself and the equipment.