Damascus-Sana
Recently, there has been a lot of talk about the decrease in the number of patients suspected of being infected with the Coronavirus to hospitals, which has led many to conclude and say that we have reached the height of infection with the virus in Syria and have begun the phase of recession, so do the numbers confirm the validity of this conclusion and how did doctors and specialists explain the issue ... The statistical figures issued by the Ministry of Health on a daily basis The number of injuries, recoveries, and deaths show a slight decrease in the number of injuries recorded on a daily basis in some governorates, due to injuries in recent days, amidst the frequency of information about the decline in the number of visitors to hospitals due to the virus, and to find out the truth about the course of the virus, SANA raised the issue to a number of doctors concerned with the issue.
The General Director of the Mouwasat University Hospital in Damascus, Dr. Issam Zakaria Al-Amin, stated to the SANA reporter that since late August and early September, the number of severe and critical cases infected with Corona, which was referred to the hospital, decreased by 30 percent compared to last July, which witnessed a remarkable increase and the curve of injuries became vertical and upward Any increase on a daily basis, explaining that preceded the current decline in numbers, a flattening of the incidence curve "i.e., the descending graph is flat."
The decrease in the number of critical and severe cases reduced the family occupancy rate allocated to Corona patients, whether in the reception, isolation and intensive care departments, according to Dr. Al-Amin indicating that the proportion of family occupancy in the aforementioned departments, which numbered 115 beds, reached a hundred percent during the month of July, while the pressure has now decreased significantly and there is now availability In the family.
Dr. Al-Amin attributed the noticeable decline in a number of Damascus hospitals to the citizens ’commitment to preventive measures broadly than before, in addition to the nature of viral epidemics, including Corona, which begins with a spread phase, then a peak and then a decline, stressing that it is difficult to expect another peak of the virus’s spread because it is new and studies are still ongoing about it. Most of them emphasized that we can live with the virus for years, so adherence to individual preventive measures is the best solution to prevent any new attack or spread of the virus.
By tracking the numbers of officially registered cases announced by the Ministry of Health, it is noticed that the number of registered cases in Damascus and its countryside decreased during the past days from ninety percent to 35 percent, according to Dr. Al-Amin, while the number increased in other governorates, pointing out that the death rate among the infected cases that were reviewed Mouwasat Hospital reached 3%, which is identical to the global percentage.
The General Director of the General Authority of Ibn Al-Nafees Hospital in Damascus, Dr. Nizar Ibrahim Bin, told SANA that through the data of the hospital’s auditors, a gradual decrease in the number of infected people was observed compared to last July, as the number of admissions in a suspected case of HIV infection in the hospital reached more than eighty patients per day and the number The swabs that are sent to the central laboratory are about 20 swabs per day, but the numbers have decreased since the beginning of last August, when the number of admissions in the first week of it reached 23 patients per day, and in the second week, an average of 16 patients per day, while the number of patients admitted to the hospital is currently in a suspected case of corona 12 patients a day.
According to Dr. Ibrahim, the occupancy rate of the 15-bed intensive care rooms decreased to 40 percent compared to the month of July and the beginning of August, when the occupancy rate was 100 percent, explaining that all cases that visit the hospital with symptoms similar to Corona's symptoms are treated as infected with the virus and the necessary measures are provided to them until The results of the "PCR" test appear, after which the positive cases can be sent to the specialized hospitals for treatment.
A number of chest doctors and specialists in Damascus and its countryside also confirmed the decrease in the number of visitors to their private clinics with a suspected case of corona infection, according to Dr. Ibrahim, explaining .. “Our colleagues of chest doctors assured us that out of every ten reviewers to their clinics there were 8 suspected cases of HIV infection, but now the number has become a case or Two out of ten.
The reasons for the decline in the number of hospital auditors, according to Dr. Ibrahim, may be due to the decline in the virulence of the virus or the occurrence of some kind of immunity, according to what some scientific studies have spoken, but he considered that the main reason locally is the increase in commitment to individual prevention measures, so we stress the commitment to them more broadly, especially with the approaching Schools open.
And about the possibility of a new virulence of the virus as some speak, Dr. Ibrahim explained that according to the opinion of the scientific committee on corona in the hospital, this cannot be resolved because it is a new virus, pointing out that even the symptoms still witness a difference as the digestive symptoms have become more common among the auditors, reaching a third While the chest symptoms are still up to 70 percent of the reviewers, a good number of people complain about the symptoms of loss of smell and taste, and these changes are not only local, but also worldwide.
On the other hand, the number of patients suspected of being infected with the Coronavirus increased for hospitals in Lattakia governorate, as Dr. Siham Makhoul, Director of the Martyr Hamza Nofal Hospital in Latakia, confirmed in a statement to SANA that it cannot be said that the graph of the spread of the virus has declined, considering that the increase or decrease in the number of infections is related to the extent of follow-up Prevention methods, adherence to spatial distancing, wearing a mask in gathering places, and abandoning the prevailing social customs such as shaking hands, hugging and kissing.
The influx of persons suspected of being infected to the hospital continues, according to Dr. Makhoul, who indicated that the hospital contains a quarantine division, a chest ambulance clinic, a room for taking Corona swabs, and that they are trying to absorb cases ranging from light to medium and send severe cases to the isolation center in Al-Haffah or the second isolation center on the Corniche. There are cases of home quarantine in the event that the symptoms are mild and acceptable and the oxygenation rate is good. Medical teams tasked with monitoring them and assessing the condition until they recover are similar.
According to Dr. Makhoul, the reason for the increase in cases in Lattakia is due to the large movement that the governorate witnessed during the holidays and the arrival of many from other governorates, which had a role in increasing the spread.
In Aleppo Governorate, the number of Coronavirus infections is still at its peak, according to the opinion of a number of doctors specialized in the governorate's hospitals. However, the symptoms of the disease are generally mild and varied between high fever, chest infections, diarrhea and weakness in general, as Dr. Ziad Hajj Taha, Director of Aleppo Health, explained in a statement to SANA that the department The ambulance at Al-Razi Hospital in Aleppo received, on a daily basis, during last August, more than 200 patients a day, of whom between 80 and 90 patients were suspected cases of corona, but at the beginning of this month it was noticed that the number of patients and those suspected of being infected with the virus decreased to between 40 and 60 percent.
Despite the recent increase in the number of HIV infections in Aleppo, the family occupancy rate in hospitals decreased from 100 percent to 50 percent because the cases are light and can be followed up at home. As for those that need an artificial competitor, they are received within the hospitals, according to Dr. Hajj Taha, indicating that Al-Razi, Ibn Khaldun, Zahi Azraq hospitals and the hospitals The private sector is still receiving cases of HIV infection, and parts of it have been allocated for isolation and providing the necessary health care.
In a similar statement, Dr. Tamim Azzawi, Director of the Hospital for Cardiac Surgery and Diseases at the University of Aleppo, indicated that the number of patients and those suspected of being infected with Coronavirus this month decreased to 50 patients, while the number of visitors during the last month of the ambulance department ranged between 250 and 300, indicating that the occupancy rate of the family is still 100 percent. .
With the difference in the decline or increase in cases of infection in various governorates, the emphasis on the need to adhere to preventive and precautionary measures, according to the opinion of specialists, is the only way to limit the spread of the virus and prevent the emergence of a new "virulence or attack" for it.