From the first days when the guidelines of the Ministry of Health and the National Public Health Organization for the fight against the coronavirus were announced, ANASSA, in full harmony with the cooperation of the Committee on Infections has announced a series of measures to protect patients, attendants, partners and staff of the clinic.
In the process and while the threat of the coronavirus exists and increases, other, increased protection measures have been added. In total, the measures taken so far and in force are as follows:
For patients / attendants
- Each patient/companion is checked at the main entrance of the clinic by specially trained staff members. On-site temperature measurement and collection of information that may identify a possible case of coronavirus is carried out.
- At the same point of the central entrance of the clinic and after the necessary control, those who meet the conditions to enter are provided with mask followed by hand disinfection both upon entry and upon exit.
- Regarding the performance of surgical procedures, only emergency cases are served. Patients undergoing surgery are treated in a room without the presence of another patient.
- For the time we are going through and until further notice, there is a ban on visitors to all departments of the clinic. In any surgical cases deemed necessary, up to one visitor can stay, but they should not have symptoms of infection.
- In all areas of the clinic (rooms, waiting areas, corridors) there are hand sanitizers in visible places.
- In all areas of the clinic, spaces and objects are disinfected daily at regular intervals to ensure the safety of patients and staff.< /span>
For staff members
- Each partner and employee is checked at the main entrance of the clinic with an on-site temperature measurement and collection of information that may identify possible case of coronavirus, whihave their disinfected.
- All employees, in all departments of the ANASSA Clinic and Polyclinic, have been informed and have received specific instructions regarding with the personal protection measures they must apply, e.g. use of gloves, mask, antiseptic and disinfectant protective means.
- The clinic and staff are equipped with special equipment in case they may be called upon to manage a case of coronavirus.
- It is the clinic’s top priority that its people are healthy and safe on the front lines so they can provide their valuable services.
ANASSA is able to carry out molecular tests for the detection of coronavirus, while it is also equipped with faster Rapid tests, exclusively for the needs of hospitalized patients and staff, if and when this is required.
ANASSA has made available to the National Health System two beds of its Intensive Care Unit, proving in practice the complementary role of the private sector in providing health services to the public health system, so that the M.O. H. to be able to cope with the demanding task of controlling the pandemic.
Regarding the group of oncology patients, it is known that therapeutic interventions continue as normal, taking the necessary precautionary measures for this vulnerable group of patients.
In the same way, the activity of patients who use the services of the Artificial Kidney Unit of ANASSA continues.
Let us all contribute, with a sense of individual and social responsibility, so that we can do all that is necessary for the health risk of the coronavirus to pass as quickly as possible. It’s up to us…