• 30/03/2023
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iRozhlas 'They don't want to hear anything.' Out of ten covid patients in Domažlice, nine are unvaccinated<

In the hospital in Domažlice, they opened the covid department again. During the week, they received ten patients and the head nurse again started to prepare changes in the services. Nine of those ten patients are not vaccinated, and even a stay in the hospital with an oxygen mask will not convince them that covid-19 is a dangerous disease at a certain age and for certain groups of patients.

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On the ground floor of the hospital, near the entrance for ambulances, the sign Surgery B lights up above the door to the inpatient area. However, surgical patients last lay here more than a year ago. That's when this part became the covid ward, which was emptied over this summer, but is now back in covid mode.

"We are currently preparing filters according to epidemiological recommendations. We're rebuilding it as we go. For about the sixth or seventh time," says cardiologist Juraj Talanov, who is currently serving here. "We have ten patients here, but only one is vaccinated. The others not at all.'

The doctor is standing in front of a plastic curtain that separates the entrance to the department. Medical personnel in standard clothing still walk here. Ten meters away, however, another plastic curtain marked with a Biohazard sign crosses the corridor. Behind him, the long-haired nurse is already putting on protective clothing. He checks the suit with a glance and enters the room with the patients.

"When we move the other plastic curtain towards us, it will be harvested again," senior nurse Romana Štroblová sighs and pulls her fair hair into a ponytail with a learned movement.

"It's a very strange feeling when you try to explain to people that covid is no fun, but nothing, they don't react, they don't want to hear it," he says, referring to a discussion with patients and their relatives who refuse vaccination. "I have no idea what makes them do it. It's depressing.'

The main thing is the family

Cardiologist Juraj Talanov believes that their families play the main role in unvaccinated elderly patients. "We have patients over eighty years old, one in his nineties, and I don't think it's their fault. Due to reduced mobility, they themselves do not seek vaccination and the family does not oppose it. The family should order and bring the senior for vaccination."

This is also confirmed by the results of studies mentioned by biochemist Jan Konvalinka in an interview for Czech Radio Plus. "There are few real vaccination deniers. I blame this on the government for not creating mobile teams to go to remote areas. Look at the population density map and you can see how the Sudetenland is doing."

According to the director of Domažlica hospital Petr Hubáček, some patients are not willing to listen to any argument. "Now there is a female patient, born in 1940, who is not vaccinated. Her daughter is also infected. But they stubbornly refuse any vaccination and play down the covid disease. The patient is threatening us with Strasbourg, that we are violating her human rights."

The director is somewhat disillusioned with the fact that hospitals and health professionals are being attacked on social networks for promoting vaccinations. "They hate us, they react very negatively to the efforts of health workers."

In connection with covid-19, 98 people have died in the Domažlica hospital since the beginning of the year.

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