Wave of admissions to hospitals, after the number of children with respiratory infections increased significantly
The number of viruses and acute respiratory infections are increasing, especially among minors. For this reason, some hospitals in the country are overburdened. The situation is the same at the Children's Hospital in Balti, where dozens of patients are admitted daily. Doctors recommend that people contact specialists at the first symptoms, but also immunise themselves against the seasonal flu.
Filadeia is nine months old and was brought to the hospital today after home treatment was not effective.
"Her nose started running, she started throwing tantrums, coughing. After a day or two, the cough became stronger," says the girl's mother.
At only four months old, Valeria was diagnosed with acute bronchitis. She was admitted to the hospital last week, where she was in the Intensive Care Unit.
"At first it was just a cough, but no fever. Saturday to Sunday felt worse. I called the ambulance," says Valeria's mother.
Doctors say that the little ones get the virus from the older ones and recommend that parents contact specialists at the first symptoms. "We had more than 60 calls to the paediatric emergency in the last 24 hours. Almost half of them need hospitalisation, have complications, and pneumonia. Of the total number of referrals, 80% are children with respiratory viruses", said Ala Condrea, vice director of the Bălți Clinical Hospital.
Although there are sufficient doses of flu vaccine in stock, people are in no rush to get immunised.
"Now, we have been discharged from the hospital. We are very sick. I have been staying at home with two children for a month. It happens one at a time. When one gets treated, another gets sick. We administer vaccines according to age. We don't trust the others".
"He has pneumonia. He has a temperature, he is coughing. - Did you get the flu shot this year? - No, I am against them. - Why? - They have a bad impact on the body", people say.
Currently, over a hundred children are admitted to the Children's Hospital in Balti, 70 percent of them have respiratory viruses.
