Intensive care is emptying but the pressure on the covid units is very high. Report at the UZ Brussel hospital Little by little, the beds in the intensive care unit of the UZ Brussel hospital in Jette are emptying of Covid patients. For the greatest relief of caregivers. But three floors above, those of the Covid units are always full. In this Brussels hospital located on the Jette campus of the Vrije Universiteit Brussel (VUB), 75 COVID-19 patients are treated, including 8 in intensive care.
“Friday, we felt a sharp increase in hospitalizations with 48 new patients, it’s going strong, reveals Cynthia De Villé, nurse in the Covid unit and who has been dedicated to sick Covid patients for two years, including only one day without any Covid patients since then. It is less serious and there are fewer severely affected patients than in previous waves, but there are more patients for conventional admissions. In these patients, we don’t really know how to do much, there is no treatment. Oxygen is given when needed, or medicine to treat cough and fever. We have people in their 20s, 30s, of all ages in fact. And what is striking is that when they are vaccinated, we see that they are less sick.”
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