Commission highlights ineffective deployment of medical workers in COVID-19 battle in Kyrgyzstan

AKIPRESS.COM - 62 workers of the Compulsory Health Insurance Fund with higher medical education were not engaged in COVID-19 red zones, they did not replace doctors in other hospitals, Samat Asanaliev, member of the interdepartmental commission that checked effectiveness of COVID-19 response in Kyrgyzstan, said.
Deployment of medical workers was ineffective, he said.
Many medical workers were deployed to sanitary checkpoints on roads. "This had little effectiveness. What they did there could be done by law enforcers, volunteers or other non-medics," he said.
It was as ineffective to deploy medical workers to observation facilities, where mainly people without coronavirus infection were held, who were transferred to hospitals in case of development of symptoms. "Volunteers or people under observation themselves could test temperature and measure saturation in those observation facilities," Samat Asanaliev said.
He said the contribution of the State Medical Academy was not mentioned, despite students of the Medical Academy volunteered in the provisional hospitals and other facilities. He recalled 21 year-old Adinai Myrzabekova, student of the Medical Academy, who died from pneumonia while working in the observation facility.