The Estonian defense forces are prepared to send 30 of their paramedics to provide assistance in hospitals that are struggling due to a large number of coronavirus patients and a lack of medical personnel, regional newspaper Louna-Eesti Postimees reports.
The medical personnel of the defense forces are definitely needed in the defense forces own medical centers and they cannot be deployed, chief doctor of the defense forces, Lt. Col. Targo Lusti, said. Those of us who are employed as medics as a secondary activity are already providing help, he added.
95 percent of paramdics in the defense forces have already been vaccinated so that they can immediately start providing assistance when needed, Lusti said.
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Last week, the number of new cases of coronavirus (COVID-19) diagnosed in Estonia was above 1,000 for the first time and was almost double the previous week s total cases. There were several new records set and three deaths were reported.
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