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Doctors started to die from pneumonia

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A worker of the scientific and practical centre of radiation medicine in Homel has died from pneumonia.

This fact has been confirmed to BelaPAN by the head of the Health Care directorate of Homel regional executive committee Mikalai Vasilkou.

As said by him, the worker of the centre was taken to the emergency hospital with acute respiratory failure. “On Friday we received confirmation from anatomical pathologists that the woman died of hard total pneumonia,” the head of the directorate stated.

As the BelaPAN has found out, the deceased was about 30, she had a maternity leave recently. She worked in the ultrasonography diagnostics department of the centre.

Mikalai Vasilkou added that there are other death cases from pneumonia, but they are to be confirmed by anatomical pathology centres still.

According to the health care directorate, no deaths from A (H1N1) flu are recorded in Homel region.

We remind that on Sunday the deputy Minister of Health Care of Belarus announced that 102 cases of A (H1N1) flu cases have been recorded in Belarus. “In some regions the situation is still tense. Against the background of all the viruses which have been confirmed in the cases of disease, 102 cases, whch makes 0.3%, was A/H1N1 virus,” Valyantsina Kachan stated on Sunday on air of the First Belarusian TV channel.

At the same time the head of the Health Care committee of Minsk city executive committee Zmitser Panevich stated during an online press-conference at a website of the Belarusian TV and Radio Company that the number of deaths from pneumonia has grown.

It is hard to name the exact number of persons who died from pneumonia and A/H1N1 virus, as tests for swine flu are not passed by all the ill persons in the country. At the same time, it should be noted that in the period of pneumonia many doctors and medical nurses who have to work with the sick every day, haven’t been vaccinated even against seasonal flu. There is no swine flu vaccines in Belarus so far.

Wow, that death certainly fits the profile. "Hard total pneumonia." Too many reports of that. Another pregnancy / recent young mother. Those healthcare workers will be uncomfortable going to work to put it mildly.

Good find Emrj!

Note that the above case is in Belarus, near Ukraine border.

Yes, to the north. Hope they are better prepared. Surely they've heard better reporting by now.

Been reading a lot of 1st and 2nd hand stories of pregnant women and new moms getting H1N1 hard and ending up in ICU on ventilators or ECMOs for weeks. Many deaths. Tragic, leaving tiny babies and bewildered families. Here in USA. These are posts on forums like TB2K where we've known each other in cyberspace for over a decade. A lot of these stories do not get reported in the news. We know about them because when the victim becomes seriously ill the situation goes up in a prayer thread or as a question or corroborative post in a flu thread. Very sad to read.

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This is a report from yesterday, translation leaves a lot of room for clearer English.
Posting it because of "According to WHO figures is made more difficult the situation in western Ukraine by the fact that one quarter of the medical staff has already been infected with the virus."

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08.11.2009 | 18:52 | By our colleague NINA Jeglinski (The Press)

H1N1 EPIDEMIC. Without international assistance to Ukraine of the new flu is no longer in control. A quarter of the medical staff has been infected, there is a lack of vaccine. Slovakia unbarring from their borders.

It is an almost unimaginably high number: 66,000 new cases were registered last Saturday by the Ukrainian Ministry of Health. 66,000 new flu infection - in just one day.

"The New Ukraine still considers the flu at bay. A week after the epidemic has engulfed the west of the country, the epidemic is spreading from moving quickly. Quarantine was the first for nine western counties, is now also the central Ukraine Kirovograd under special surveillance, and the eastern city of Lugansk may soon follow.

In the quarantined areas, life is still practical. Cinemas, theaters, markets are closed, and all educational institutions nationwide have stopped for a week in service. In the capital Kiev first deaths were reported. As everywhere else where there are too few hospital beds, personnel, equipment and medications. The Kiev city of millions, keep only 200Betten for infectious disease cases, writes the Ukrainian newspaper Zerkalo Nedeli.

Meanwhile, Slovakia has largely closed its border with eastern neighbor. Only a transition remains open: Here, physicians should check the passengers and to prevent infected persons suspected of entering the EU. With this temporary measure intended to prevent the spread of the disease in the EU states, said the Slovak Interior Minister Robert Kalinak.

Many doctors infected

The World Health Organization (WHO) has asked because of the severe flu epidemic in Ukraine, the international community for help. The country urgently needed medicines, medical professionals, diagnostic tools, "said the head since the beginning of the week in Ukraine operating WHO delegation, Jukka Pukkila. There is a lack of test facilities to check on all cases of flu H1N1 virus. In 47Toten that the virus has now been proven by tests, said Pukkila. Nevertheless, it is more than a hundred flu deaths. According to WHO figures is made more difficult the situation in western Ukraine by the fact that one quarter of the medical staff has already been infected with the virus.

Achieved since the beginning of the week for international assistance to Ukraine. Last landed on an aircraft from Austria last Friday in Kiev, on board a supply from the EU. In addition to the WHO delegation, which has already been investigated for several days, the most heavily infested areas, is now the EU Commission, a five-member team sent into the country. "The experts are to prepare on behalf of the EU aid," said David Stulik, spokesman of the EU delegation in Kiev. The WHO is confident that "for a vaccination campaign in Ukraine is not yet too late," as Jukka Pukkila said.

Because around the world but give too little vaccine, the WHO is currently investigating which areas in Ukraine are to be supplied with what drug, said Finnish physicians. The country would need only 12.5 million doses of vaccine against the H1N1 pathogen, said Oleksandr Bilowol, chief sanitary doctor of Ukraine. Currently we did not have any vaccine.

Only privileged afford doctor

Apparently it has failed to make preparations for the forthcoming influenza wave. Of the 300,000 inhabitants of the city of Cherkassy have only 28Personen against normal flu vaccinated. These figures show that higher income primarily seek medical attention. The public health of the ex-Soviet republic is in a sorry state: The hospital staff is underpaid, the houses are bad or poorly equipped. It is common that patients bring their medication themselves, and bribe the doctor and the nurses, before it ever comes to an inquiry.

Private doctors require their fee usually in dollars or euros, which is why most Ukrainians cure their illness with home remedies. This situation plays the spread of the flu virus now in the hands.

Emergency is declared?

The various political camps are currently busy with campaigning, will be held on 17.Jänner presidential elections. If the government does not succeed in getting the flu epidemic under control needed, the emergency may be declared in the country, it was said from the office of President Viktor Yushchenko. Even a postponement of the elections to the 30th May would not be excluded.

Together with international organizations, the government wants to develop over the next ten days, a national assistance plan. Without support from abroad in the form of medicines, medical personnel and financial assistance to Ukraine will not become master of the epidemic, it was the part of the EU.
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I am curious, what is the bed capacity for this country. Is it even possible to have that many people hospitalized with that low of a death rate. Here in the U.S. our rate of deaths vs hospitalization is about 10 % Which means you would expect to see about 2X that number at the very least in this country due to it's antiquated system of medicine. I would even go so far as to say very minimum 3X that many easily. I would say the hospitalization rate is an alert. But without true accurate reporting of deaths and accurate reporting by the world health organization of mutation countries will be left in a bind if it is and they are waiting this long to report it.

This is why I say once again you cannot rely on the government to save you or even warn you if something wicked this way comes.

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"Chisinau. Number of people infected with swine flu in Moldova has increased three times over the last days.
Some 113 new cases of A(H1N1)-infected were registered by November 6. Three days later the patients ill with swine flu run to 316, RBC reports, citing a press release of Moldova’s Healthcare Ministry.
Moldova’s government decided to extend the flu vacation at schools and universities with one more week.
Up to now, 3 people died of swine flu in Moldova."

http://www.focus-fen.net/index.php?id=n199874

52,742 were hospitalized since 29/10/09 according to the numbers released by Ministry of Health of Ukraine (MHU)

13,486 patients from this number had left the hospitals after their condition had improved, this number can be found at the last column of the same table with numbers provided by MHU.