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As hospitals were overwhelmed a nurse erected ICU at home to treat relatives with Covid thelondoneconomic.com - get the latest breaking news, showbiz & celebrity photos, sport news & rumours, viral videos and top stories from thelondoneconomic.com Daily Mail and Mail on Sunday newspapers.
“If we had gone to the hospital, I don’t know where we would have ended up,” Polychoni Stergiou, the nurse s 64-year-old mother-in-law, said. “That didn’t happen, thanks to my son-in-law.” Tachtatzoglou set up a makeshift ICU in the downstairs apartment of his family s two-story home in the village of Agios Athanasios, located about 30 kilometres from the city. He rented, borrowed and modified the monitors, oxygen delivery machines and other equipment his loved ones might need. Giannis Papanikos/AP Tachtatzoglou has worked as an ICU nurse in northern Greece for 20 years but when the pandemic struck his city in the fall, Covid-19 wards were quickly overwhelmed. ....
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Greek nurse erects ICU at home to treat relatives with Covid-19 December 30, 2020 1,094 Views What does a medical professional do when his wife and in-laws contract the disease at the center of a months-long pandemic? Gabriel Tachtatzoglou, a critical care nurse, did not feel good about the treatment options available in Greece’s second-largest city when his wife, both her parents and her brother came down with Covid-19 in November. Thessaloniki has been among the areas of Greece with the most confirmed coronavirus cases, and hospital intensive care units were filling up. Tachtatzoglou, who had to quarantine and could not go to work once his relatives tested positive for the virus, decided to put his ICU experience to use by looking after them himself. ....
Greece’s First Responders Doubt Covid-19 Vaccine and Won’t Take it Photo credit: piqsels.com A large percentage of health workers in Greece have responded negatively to the upcoming Covid-19 vaccination, with anti-vaccination doctors and nursing staff in some hospitals being the majority. According to a recent poll by Pulse among health professionals, 29 percent of respondents are against the vaccination, while 15 percent say that they will never take the vaccine. As Greece is counting down the arrival of the coronavirus vaccine health workers are the first to be vaccinated, according to the government plan but of the medical staff in 12 public hospitals that responded to an ANT1 report, a large percentage of them do not want to be vaccinated. ....