7 hours agoMontenegrin epidemiologist: Everything is out of control, 12 doctors care for 5,500 infected
Periskopi(6 years ago)
(6 years ago)This, she says, is evidenced by data from primary healthcare that more and more pneumonia patients are being treated at home. Popovic-Sarasic stressed in the morning TVCG programme that this is a good indication that everything is out of control. These people are exhausted, until recently there were 12 doctors who [...]
“Those people are exhausted, until recently there were 12 doctors who cared for 5,500 infected in Podgorica for ten straight days”, she said.
When asked who Montenegro should choose between health and economics, she noted that there is no choice between those two options and that someone, as she said, established this dilemma artificially.
We are a country that relies on the service sector, which we don't have if we have so many health problems, we don't have an economy if we have this kind of public health system. So, in support of that I will say that all countries that are good at controlling the epidemic are the only countries that have managed to maintain economic stability indicators”, Popovic-Samardzic stressed.
Speaking of the tightening of measures to prevent the spread of coronary, she said they should be taken and appreciated, and the gap between NCT and the Institute of Public Health is, she says, an example of the gap between politics and profession, so they should choose whether Montenegro will be guided by the politics and interests of specific structures, or guided by the public health problem and the opinion of the professional public.
“As a consequence, we have such results, we wander among the priorities of a structure, then another structure, favouring one and then another structure. We are constantly repairing the damage due to wandering through” strategies, Popovic-Samardsic said.
