Moscow Mayor Sergei Sobyanin the TV channel “Russia 24” told me that starting next week, hospitals in the city will resume the planned assistance. Return to the previous volumes of the work will happen gradually.
According to the mayor, to obtain planned care for patients will need additional treatments. Doctors should make sure that the person is not sick with coronavirus, but the hospital will not have a new source of infection.
Earlier, during a working meeting with President Vladimir Putin, Sergei Sobyanin said that almost half of hospital beds in Moscow prepared for patients with COVID-19, free and can gradually begin to use to provide the planned assistance.
At the same time the city authorities plan to save the temporary centres for people with coronavirus in the event of a second wave of infection, said the mayor.
Hospitalization for planned care will be carried out with a number of precautions. In the early days patients are placed in individual observation chamber, where it is examined for the presence of coronavirus. Planned treatment will start only after obtaining a negative test for the infection.
