Due to a dramatic increase in daily confirmed coronavirus cases since recently, the Sarajevo Canton (KS) Government adopted a series of measures on Thursday and is working on securing more capacities for accommodating COVID-19 patients.
“Capacities are full, manpower is lacking. If we want to survive as a society, we must save our health system,” KS Prime Minister Edin Forto, said at a press conference.
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He explained that the local government is considering asking private healthcare institutions to take over “a large number” of patients.The government would check whether there are any such private facilities that meet the requirements for treating the patients available. If not, other facilities, such as sports and concert halls, could be used for it, he said.
According to KS Health Minister and head of the Crisis Headquarters, Haris Vranic, “we are practically entering the third wave of the epidemic.”
He said the KS Government is dealing with the problem “on its own,” accusing the Government and Crisis Headquarters of the higher government level, that of Bosnia’s Federation (FBiH) entity, of abandoning KS.
“As the Government and the Ministry, we are doing everything we can to acquire vaccines. A large number of young people are hospitalized, which indicates that the British and probably the South African strain that affects young people has arrived,” said Vranic.
The KS Government adopted several new measures, ordering that public healthcare facilities employ a number of doctors and medical professionals who are registered at the unemployment office and asking the Health Ministry of Bosnia’s Federation (FBiH) entity for information on which facilities could be used to treat COVID-19 patients.
According to the KS Public Health Institute, 484 new coronavirus infections were confirmed among the 1,336 samples tested in KS in the past 24 hours, while seven COVID-19 patients died.
A total of 338 patients are hospitalised, of which 214 are at the Sarajevu University Clinical Centre and 124 at the Dr. Abdulah Nakas General Hospital.
Since, Wednesday, 348 people have recovered from the disease in KS.
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