Correspondents of “Chronicles of Turkmenistan” report that the situation with regard to the spread of coronavirus in Dashoguz velayat is seriously exacerbating.
Due to an unofficial ban to diagnose COVID-19, patients are treated for “pneumonia”. Pneumonia can be a complication from a large number of medical conditions, not all of which are contagious.
This allows admitting coronavirus patients not only to infectious diseases units but also to internal medicine departments, which contributes to a wider spread of COVID-19 in the in-patient facilities.
According to sources at “Chronicles of Turkmenistan”, the infectious diseases department located on the premises of a general hospital in Dashoguz velayat has an isolation unit where patients with a severe form of COVID-19 are treated.
Of 72 patients who had been undergoing treatment there since 15 December, only 21 have stabilized; and the rest have died.
On 17 December, 2020 a chief physician of the tuberculosis rehab centre Maral A. died in Akdepe (formerly the village of Leninsk). She had been aware that she had contracted COVID-19.
Meanwhile schoolchildren of Dashoguz velayat have been prevented from gathering over the New Year holidays. Parents of students are held accountable.
“The school administration has already warned us to keep an eye on our children.We were obliged to submit a letter of acknowledgement stating that we were accountable for the behavior of children during the New Year celebrations and the Farewell Bell ceremony it was explained at the time that students must behave themselves.
However, Now the preventive and precautionary measures against the spread of COVID-19 have been announced as the reason behind the ban”, one of the parents whose children study at school №3 in the city of Dashoguz told us.
Concerned that young people from etraps might head to Dashoguz for the New Year celebrations, effective 25 December, 2020 the municipal authorities have banned entry to the city to residents from the provinces during night time, from 8 p.m. to 5 a.m.
Sources of “Chronicles of Turkmenistan” have reported that the khyakimlik’s office is discussing the possibility of denying access to inhabitants of other settlements in the northern region from 30 December, 2020 to 2 January, 2021.The post In the course of two weeks 51 patients out of 72 die of COVID-19 in the infectious diseases department of a Dashoguz hospital first appeared on Chronicles of Turkmenistan.