Czech hospital staff working flat out as Covid spikes AFP 2/25/2021 AFP © Michal Cizek The Czech Republic has seen 1.2 million cases with 20,000 deaths since the pandemic began
Nurse Drahoslava Letakova runs a hand through her hair, leans against the wall and her eyes moisten as she thinks before answering a question about her working life. That I m here all the time? That I have no time off? That I haven t had a vacation for more than six months? That s how it is, working life, she said quietly.
Letakova is head nurse at the internal medicine ward of a hospital in the town of Stod in Czech Republic, which currently has the world s highest per capita Covid-19 infection rate.
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Czechs running out of hospital capacity
World
February 24, 2021
PRAGUE: The Czech Republic is reaching capacity in intensive care wards as coronavirus infections keep soaring in the EU’s worst-hit country, the health ministry said on Tuesday.
The country tops the world in terms of new infections per 100,000 people over the last 14 days and is second after neighbouring Slovakia for deaths, according to an AFP tally. The government, which tamed the spread during the first wave early last year, has been grappling with recurrent upswings since the summer of 2020 in the country of 10.7 million people.
“We’re getting close to running out of intensive care capacity,” Deputy Health Minister Vladimir Cerny told reporters, blaming a lack of qualified staff in the first place. “In no way can we maintain the current standards of health care and there is a slowdown and postponements in non-Covid care. The system as a whole is close to its limit,” he added.