The Minister of Health spoke about an extremely important mistake that was made, on the one hand, by doctors in Romania, and on the other hand, by Romanians, in the midst of the Coronavirus pandemic, saying that the administration of antibiotics could prove to be a very serious problem.
The Minister of Health says that antibiotics were administered pointlessly in the case of treating many people infected with the Coronavirus, so now they are trying to restrict the treatment with antivirals only to people who really need them, separately explaining the importance of the number of hospitalizations before the application of restrictions.
"I did not refer to the number of infections, I determined that we are not interested in the number of infections. We monitor, and you have daily information on the number of allocated beds, of which the number of intensive care beds, how many there are, number of admitted patients, number of patients admitted to intensive care, and we have a separate section for pediatric cases .
We currently have somewhere around 17% of the total number of beds occupied by patients, and about 15% of the total number of intensive care beds. These are not alarming numbers. In the previous wave, we worked very well with the Ministry of Education, we kept the schools open, and we established that in the counties where 75% of the occupied beds appear, school should be suspended for a certain period of time.
You have to act surgically, if you can say that, stop school, stop transmission for 2/3 weeks, then resume classes, and not in the whole country, but strictly in a county where you have a large number of cases in a hospital . We are not interested in outbreaks, admissions can be different because people quickly go to the doctor, diagnose themselves, isolate themselves.
We offer antivirals to those who need them, because there is also a discussion here, and we are trying to educate the population in this regard, because antivirals should not be taken as antibiotics are taken. People in good health, usually young adults, if they have a mild form, do not need antivirals, they take symptomatic ones, and that's it.
Antibiotics, even more so, should not be taken, you know very well that it was exaggerated, tons of antibiotics, macrolides, were taken in this pandemic. We are really curious, at the moment we are doing studies to see how the bacteria behave towards this class of substances, because they were given very liberally during the pandemic."
