Patients with covid: There was no time for vaccination. Paramedics: We didn’t expect anything worse to come (report from a crowded hospital) – Denník N

Mr. Dusan is 66 years old. He works as a car mechanic in Kysucké Nové Mesto. It has a tube in the nostrils through which it receives oxygen.

He offers to put on a respirator, but even without it he has difficulty breathing, he often has trouble answering the sentence. It’s the fifth day in the covid ward at the hospital in Čadca. He couldn’t breathe, so he called an ambulance. “My son and I went to work, you don’t know where you get infected.”

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Mr. Dušan’s son is vaccinated and goes abroad. Mr. Dusan is not vaccinated. “I do not know why I did not give up. Hard to say. I leave in the morning, I come in the evening and there has never been a thought about vaccination. One also has robots around the cottage and garden. He can’t run as hard as he wants. “

He is alone now, a few days ago he was in a room with two vaccinated patients. “They also lay here, it’s hard to say what helps,” he says.

He admits that since they had an easier course of covid, he is now considering vaccination.

According to Mr. Dušan, the hospital staff is perfect. “Just to get the rewards they deserve.”

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In the hallway, where Mr. Dušan’s room is, a large tree is painted on the wall. It contains the names of people who worked in the covid department for at least three months during the second wave.

A few rooms further is the intensive care unit with patients in very serious condition. All beds are full.

There are just two sisters next to them. Daniela is 23 years old, she started right after school. “It simply came to our notice then