Increased demand for Covid-19 testing and respiratory diseases from Covid-19 and the flu is inflicting longer wait occasions for sufferers of Bothwell Regional Health Center’s Walk-In Clinic and the Emergency Department. This is in response to the Pettis County Covid-19 Task Force Briefing from Monday, January 3.
Bothwell Regional Health Center has reported a surge in individuals accessing their companies and has “experienced significant challenges with not having enough staffed beds in our hospital to admit patients, as well as no other hospital to transfer patients, causing a bottleneck in our Emergency Department.”
Pettis County Health Center’s report on Monday mentioned there are 23 inpatients in Bothwell Regional Health Center for Covid-19, with one on a ventilator. Additionally, seven individuals have been admitted with the flu. And sufferers in the Emergency Department at the hospital have been having to remain there till a mattress opens up in the hospital.
Complicating issues, Pettis County Health Center says, “Finding a bed in a referral hospital is very difficult due to a surge in cases and staffing shortages. This is not just for people with COVID, but anyone needing specialized care.”
While the Omicron variant hasn’t been detected in the most up-to-date sewer shed knowledge for Sedalia, it’s current in Columbia. As far as the flu is worried there have been 133 circumstances reported final week in Pettis County, and the age group being impacted the most are youths ages 5 to 14. During the whole 2020-2021 flu season there have been solely ten reported circumstances in Pettis County.
Pettis County Health Center is asking everybody to fastidiously contemplate their actions and do what they will do to ease the pressure on our well being care system and hold their households and themselves secure. This contains getting vaccinated and or getting a booster shot.
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