ZAGREB, 8 Nov, 2021 - As COVID hospitalisation numbers are increasing, Zagreb hospitals are expanding their COVID capacities while reducing services that are not essential.
The director of the Sisters of Mercy Hospital in Zagreb, Davor Vagić, told Hina that the hospital is expanding its COVID ward by an extra 12 beds plus eight more intensive care units.
There are currently 60 COVID patients at the hospital and together with the emergency ward, there will be about 100 beds available for patients.
He added that non-essential treatment would be reduced by 25%.
Vagić said that about 550 employees at the hospital had received a third dose of vaccine and immunisation would continue at the the same pace.
The KBC Hospital in Zagreb will also increase its COVID capacities from 113 to 129 and currently there are 108 COVID patients at that university hospital, 17 of whom are on ventilators, the hospital's assistant director Milivoj Novak said.
The Dubrava hospital currently has 135 hospitalised COVID patients and 21 are in ICU and they are all on ventilators.
A Health Ministry task force has recommended that all hospitals expand their COVID capacities.
The Zagreb-based Sveti Duh hospital is currently caring for about 30 COVID patients.
The hospital's head, Mladen Bušić, told Hina that elective surgeries had been reduced to some extent due to acute treatment of COVID-19.
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