Penelope Canonico
02/16/2021 1:36 PM
Clarín.com
Society
Updated 02/16/2021 1:38 PM
─Can my daughter go up
even for 5 minutes
?
I need your restraint, the contact in person.
I am an elderly person and it is very ugly to feel alone ─a woman asked without success in the little room that she shared with three other people hospitalized for non-Covid pathologies.
Cristina went to the sanatorium every day with her bag ready to hand over to her mother.
Since he couldn't give it to her in person, he waited at the reception until
a nurse came down to get it.
Isabel Rodríguez is 76 years old and is a patient at risk for suffering from COPD and suffering from heart problems.
After
a year without visiting the doctor
due to the epidemiological situation, he went to the Zubizarreta Hospital guard due to severe pain in his chest.
“As soon as I arrived, they took my temperature.
I was admitted to the emergency room with an IV and left under intensive care observation.
Time passed between news, word search and
video calls
that I had to settle for to have contact with my daughter, ”she recalls.
They detected anemia after having undergone a whirlwind of analysis during the
9 days that she was hospitalized
.
“It was a great joy to be discharged.
I was a bit lost because the only contact I had during that time was with the nurses who hid their faces behind masks, ”she tells
Clarín
.
His voice exudes emotion.
Isabel, admitted to the Zubizarreta Hospital for another pathology, was unable to receive visitors.
José La Bella is 75 years old and is a neighbor of the Belgrano neighborhood.
He walked to the Méndez Hospital emergency room due to fever and vomiting.
During the
72 hours
that his hospitalization lasted, he could not receive visits for protocol reasons.
With his four stands, he found himself in silence and utter solitude in a two-by-two room.
But his bad mood was increased when, after getting up to go to the bathroom, he accidentally
loosened the serum band
and spilled the liquid.
-Nurse, I can't be in these circumstances.
I need someone to come clean, ask for the internal number.
Enraged, he gets out of bed to get dressed and put on his shoes, ready to shoot from the room.
Three doctors
introduce themselves
.
-I want to go, I don't want to be here anymore.
How can they leave me like this, he claims.
-You cannot withdraw, it is convenient that you wait for all the results, especially for your heart condition -they contain it while a nurse appears to attend the patient's request.
Pino, as his friends call him, had no choice but to resign himself.
“I felt
inside a cage
.
I got sick and had to endure, meditating. When I was discharged I felt that I was
rejuvenated for 20 years
”, he told
Clarín
with emotion.
An imbalance in potassium values caused him to be separated from his wife for three days, in whose embrace he took refuge when he walked through the door of the sanatorium.
Different sanitary criteria
From the City Ministry of Health, they report that non-Covid patients can be visited
only by a relative
to reduce the risks that they could bring from the street and that biosafety regulations must be respected at all times.
The regulations are reflected in
Resolution 781,
which restricts the entry of companions to public hospitals in the City, while the epidemiological situation continues.
“
In some places it means that no one passes by
and in others a relative (reference of the medical history) is allowed, without risk factors, for a period of less than
15 minutes
.
There is no unanimous criterion for admitting or not visits.
In the Zubizarreta, they have been admitted in a careful way, with protective equipment and according to the disposition of the personnel ”, details the medical personnel of the place.
The admission of visits to a boarding school for any non-Covid pathology is not regulated in public or private places, explains Daniel López Rossetti, an infectious disease physician.
“There are general rules.
When a person enters an institute for any unscheduled emergency, such as appendicitis, they are always considered Covid (PCR is performed).
In non-scheduled Covid consultations, such as an upper digestive endoscopy, a swab is requested three days before and the same applies to your companion.
These are prevention regulations that
vary from one health center to another
”, he points out.
“The protocol depends on each institution that can, for example,
restrict visits according to the number of Covid patients it has hospitalized
to minimize the risk of infection or the internal rules followed by the infectious disease area.
It adapts according to the current epidemiological situation ”, says Mario Boskis, an expert in clinical research and prevention of heart disease, who underlines
the importance of affection
for the person who is hospitalized.
“The
physical approach of a relative
could make a big difference in the prognosis, it helps to have a future life project.
I was hospitalized for severe Covid with bilateral pneumonia for a week.
The contact with my wife was a great stimulus in my recovery, "he says.
Rossetti agrees: "Humanly, it is a nexus that adds to the extent that biosafety standards allow."
In fact, a report published in October 2020 in the scientific journal Chest (“Effects of covid19 on health during hospitalization of patients”) showed that 75% of hospitalized people experienced
alterations in their mood
, with a consequent increase in psychic stress.
The most commonly referred factors were
anxiety and uncertainty due to the probable worsening of the disease
in up to 57% of the patients.
It was also found that 50% reported anguish due to the absence of their family and 40% due to being isolated.
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