Tengiz Tsertsvadze, Director General of the Infectious Diseases, AIDS and Clinical Immunology Research Center, urges COVID-infected citizens to apply to medical institutions in time and notes that high death toll was is to the delayed clinic appoints.
“With the intensive use of new drugs, we have reduced mortality rate, it still remains high due to the delayed clinic appoints.
I would like to address the population - all patients under risk groups, as well as who are already critically ill, trust your family doctor; do not be stubborn, do not try your luck, because your neighbor has been easily cured ... Go to the clinic, half of the beds are free - despite such a high incidence of infection, 8,000 hospital beds are mobilized and only 4,600 are occupied.
Contact the clinic for the first 8-10 days. If you contact us during the first 8 days, we can almost guarantee that we can avoid aggravation, you will not get in ICU and we will minimize mortality," said Tengiz Tsertsvadze.
