BREST, 18 December (BelTA) – Brest Oblast Hospital has purchased six ventilators in line with the Cross-Border Cooperation Program Poland-Belarus-Ukraine, BelTA learned from chief physician of the hospital Aleksandr Karpitsky.
Brest Oblast Hospital together with a hospital in Poland's Biala Podlaska is implementing the project to improve the epidemiological safety in the Belarusian-Polish border area. In addition to the main grant, the European Union has allocated funding for coronavirus response to healthcare facilities. Brest Oblast Hospital used these funds to buy high-quality ventilators made in Germany.
“These ventilators have more functions and capacities thanks to new software. For example, they can do high-frequency ventilation, which is important for treating coronavirus patients. It is delivered with catheters without tracheal intubation, a so-called non-invasive ventilation. Ventilators of the previous generation do not have this function,” Aleksandr Karpitsky said.
Three new ventilators were installed in the infectious disease unit. The rest were delivered to the intensive care unit that also admits COVID-19 patients.
In line with the main project of the Cross-Border Cooperation Program Poland-Belarus-Ukraine, Brest Oblast Hospital is improving its diagnosis capacities. The hospital has already received some equipment, including an ultrasound machine that can do elastography and elastometry. It helps investigate the state of liver, the presence of connective tissue, and the stage of cirrhosis. The hospital has also upgraded the laboratory equipment and is installing an information system for the laboratory. It will soon receive endoscopy towers for surgical and diagnostic procedures.
“The project is coming to an end. However, we have some funds left. We have applied to the secretariat of the program in Warsaw for permission to use them to buy an oxygen concentrator module and syringe pumps,” Aleksandr Karpitsky added.
