In Russia, the increase in infections with coronavirus, SARS and influenza continues. The country is raging strain A(H1N1), known as swine flu – the most dangerous and aggressive. In 2009, it was he who caused the pandemic that claimed thousands of lives. As you know, in previous years, the flu replaced the covid, but this season it once more attacked the Russians. Swine flu has already been detected in 82 regions, Rospotrebnadzor said.
– This strain of influenza has a very high contagiousness, it has quite serious complications – pneumonia, damage to the central, peripheral nervous system, kidneys, – Doctor of Medical Sciences Igor Nikitin.
Polyclinics are literally torn apart by a flurry of calls from patients with symptoms of the disease.
“Today I called the doctor to the house through the 122 service. After a while, they called me back from the clinic and said that there were no doctors and no one would come. Come yourself – and this is with a temperature of 38.6, “ – Petersburg readers of “Doctor Peter” report.
Overloaded and fast. Sometimes you have to wait a very long time. Many of the patients are children.
«We waited for an ambulance for the child for several hours, then for a long time we looked for which hospital to take them to – there are a lot of sick people, there is a problem with places”, – this is what readers of the publication say regarding the situation in St. Petersburg.
“Doctor Peter” understands how to determine what kind of virus you have caught, what complication the flu is dangerous for, when you need to call an ambulance and what to do if it does not arrive for a long time.
