Nastov: Six patients have a skin transplant due to the degree of burns

Ten patients are currently being treated at the University Clinic for Surgical Diseases in Skopje at the Pulse Discotheque in Kocani, six of whom have already transplanted skin due to the degree of burns, Clinic Director Nebojsa Nastov, Gjorgjievski.

As Nastov pointed out, the six patients who have been transplanted are third degree burns, while other patients continue regular dressings and are expected to be released for home treatment next week. But, as he said, the situation is fluid and can be changed hour by hour.

– Regarding the current health of patients from the hospital I come from, it is the University Clinic for Surgical Diseases in Skopje, 10 patients are currently hospitalized, of whom six have already been made to skin transplantation because they were patients with the highest level of burns. Other patients continue regular dressings and already next week according to the plans we have, although I have to repeat that the situation is very fluid and can be changed from hour to hour, the first home shots are planned – Nastov said.

In connection with patients treated in foreign countries, Nastov pointed out that they will be treated there by some stage, but, as he said, at some stage they will have to return and be resettled in the country’s hospital capacities, for which, he said, protocols and coordinations are being made to return to patients.

– Patients who are being treated outside the country will be treated in foreign countries that have met us, but at some stage they will come the time when they need to return to our country and when they need to be resettled in hospitals, ie in all hospital capacities in the country. To this end, protocols and coordinations are made between the Ministry of Health, the Ministry of Foreign Affairs and the Government’s General and Common Affairs Office in which the coordination will go back to the return of patients depending on the pace that will be written by hospital institutions from abroad – Nastov said.

Asked about the condition of the six patients who are being treated abroad and are in critical health, Nastov has said that there will be information after today’s crisis headquarters meeting, because, as he said, foreign countries’ hospitals about the condition of the patients are briefing once a day.

– At the moment I do not have that information because we have a meeting of the crisis steam from 2pm, and then we usually receive the news and believe that hospitals are briefing the situation once a day, not for an hour or half an hour. So they would have those data after 2 pm – Nastov said.