The sleet and drizzle that made traffic difficult throughout the country on Tuesday morning did not cause problems for the emergency departments of Vilnius hospitals. So much Vilnius University hospitals Santara clinics, and the Republic of Vilnius University Hospital (RVUL) did not experience an influx of traumatized patients.
"So far, the doctors working in the RVUL Emergency Department have not yet felt a significant increase in the flow of patients due to slippery sidewalks. In general, the beginning of winter is quite grateful for our traumatologists in this matter, which we are very happy about," Asta Bagdonavičienė, chief specialist of the RVUL communication department, said in a comment sent to Elta.
According to her, Tuesday morning started relatively calmly, the number of patients increased only in the afternoon: "But so far, only isolated cases of slip injuries are registered."
According to A. Bagdonavičienė, the situation may change in the evening, when people return home from work and the weather conditions change. "But we will know the summarized statistics of today's injuries only tomorrow morning," noted the RVUL communication specialist.
In December, an average of 99 patients per day applied to RVUL for traumatological assistance (various injuries not necessarily related to skiing).
"This is even less than our usual average patient flow, which has been statistically reaching 100-120 patients applying to traumatologists per day for many years now," comments A. Bagdonavičienė. Similar figures are reflected in the statistics of the last few days - on Monday, RVUL received 106 patients with a traumatological profile, on Sunday - 100, on Saturday - 118.
How different the situation was Beautiful - The Traumatology Department of the Kaunas Hospital of the Lithuanian University of Health Sciences (LSMU) announced that on Tuesday from 6 a.m. from morning to noon, about 100 patients with various injuries were received, when usually there are about 150-200 of them during the whole day.
The biggest influx started around noon. There are a lot of serious injuries that require inpatient treatment, LSMU reported. There are about 20 of these since morning.
Irtautė Gutauskaitė (ELTA)
