COVID-19 pandemic in Russia's care homes
The first officially confirmed case of Coronavirus disease 2019 (COVID-19) in Russian nursing homes for the elderly and disabled was registered in the nursing home for the elderly and disabled, located the town of Vyazma, on April 11, 2020.[1][2]
Deputy Minister of Ministry of Labour and Social Protection Olga Batalina reported on April 23, 2020 that 450 Russians living in nursing homes were infected with the COVID-19, and diseases were registered in seven regions of Russia. The Ministry of Labor and Social Protection of the Russian Federation called in April 2020 to close all care homes in full quarantine.[3] At the beginning of May 2020, Elizaveta Oleskina, an employee of the Charity Fund "Starost v Radost" (Old Age in Joy), reported that there were cases of COVID-19 in nursing homes for elderly people in 20 Russian regions.[2]
The number of elderly or disabled people living in Russian nursing homes is estimated about 280.000.[2]
Infection pathways[edit]
The Deputy Minister of Labor and Social Protection of Russia Olga Batalina named two main ways for infection to enter care homes: with infected personnel, and with care home residents who were treated in hospitals.[3]
Prevention[edit]
Disease prevention can be through full quarantine of a boarding home. For example, in April 2020, in the Bryansk region, all 20 care homes were quarantined after cases of coronavirus were reported in the care home for the elderly and disabled in the town of Selzo.[3][4]
Russian charity "Starost v Radost" fund's Elizaveta Oleskina said that care homes in order to prevent infection may impose two-week quarantine for personnel to stay inside, as well as regular testing of infection. The nursing homes may organize "dirty" and "clean" zones, divided by filter lock. The Russian charity fund's Elizaveta Oleskina said that there was lack of personnel, nurses and medical doctors in Russian care homes for the elderly, so it needed to organize good employment for care homes. Elizaveta Oleskina said that the Russian social health service workers had little payment and there was lack of them, and that worsened the health situation of the elderly. Elizaveta Oleskina said that oxygen devices are necessary in nursing homes because when hospitals have a shortage of beds, the elderly might stay for treatment in their nursing homes.[2]
Russian care homes' entrepreneur, Alexey Sidnev (Senior Groupp, ru. Сениор Групп), said that Personal protective equipment (PPE) are necessary for care homes' personnel.[2]
Fear to be sacked among personnel[edit]
Russia's statistics of those who have died from COVID-19 are reported as the lowest in Europe.[5] However, staff in the nursing home "Vishenki", located in the city of Smolensk, said on May 28, 2020 that at least eight residents had died since May 3, but that they were not counted as COVID-19 related, neither autopsy nor virus testing were carried out and their deaths were registered due to other causes. The personnel also wanted to remain anonymous when they were interviewed by BBC because they were afraid of publicity that would cause them to be fired.[5]
Diseases by region[edit]
Bryansk region[edit]
COVID-19 was found in the nursing home for elderly in the town of Selzo, yet no numbers of infected were called on April 21, 2020.[6]
Kaluga region[edit]
Cases of the disease were registered in the Novoslobodsky nursing home for the elderly and disabled in the Duminichi district of the Kaluga region in April 2020.[7]
Smolensk and Smolensk region[edit]
- In the gerontological center "Vishenki" (Cherry), located in the city of Smolensk, in which 460 people lived on that time, 84 cases of infection were registered in May 2020[8][9].
- In the Yartsevo nursing home for the elderly and disabled, located in the town of Yartsevo, 22 employees, 94 residents and 4 volunteers registered with the disease in May 2020.[10]
- In the Vyazemsky nursing home for the elderly and disabled, located in the town of Vyazma, where in total (as of April 2020) were 196 residents, cases of coronavirus were found in April 2020, and 67 patients were hospitalized.[11][1]
See also[edit]
References[edit]
- ↑ 1.0 1.1 "Об учреждении" [About the care home]. Вяземский дом-интернат для престарелых и инвалидов (in русский). Retrieved June 1, 2020.
- ↑ 2.0 2.1 2.2 2.3 2.4 Алленова, Ольга (May 10, 2020). "В бой с COVID идут старики". Коммерсантъ (in русский). Retrieved May 30, 2020.
- ↑ 3.0 3.1 3.2 "Минтруд назвал число больных COVID-19 в интернатах и домах престарелых". Известия (in русский). April 23, 2020. Retrieved May 30, 2020.
- ↑ "Государственное бюджетное стационарное учреждение социального обслуживания населения Брянской области «Дом-интернат малой вместимости для пожилых людей и инвалидов г. Сельцо»". «ГБСУСОН "Дом-интернат малой вместимости для пожилых людей и инвалидов г. Сельцо» (in русский). Retrieved May 30, 2020.
- ↑ 5.0 5.1 Rainsford, Sarah (May 28, 2020). "Coronavirus: Nightmare spreads through Russia's care homes". BBC. Retrieved May 30, 2020.
- ↑ "Все брянские соцучреждения закроют на карантин из-за вспышки COVID-19". Риа Новости (in русский). April 21, 2020. Retrieved May 30, 2020.
- ↑ "В калужском доме престарелых зафиксирована вспышка коронавируса". Interfax (in русский). April 29, 2020. Retrieved May 30, 2020.
- ↑ "Более 80 человек заразились коронавирусом в геронтологическом центре в Смоленской области". Интерфакс-Россия (in русский). May 26, 2020. Retrieved May 30, 2020.
- ↑ "История развития центра". Геронтологический центр «Вишенки» (in русский). Retrieved May 30, 2020.
- ↑ "В доме престарелых в Смоленской области 120 человек заразились коронавирусом". Интерфакс-Россия (in русский). May 12, 2020. Retrieved May 30, 2020.
- ↑ "Ситуация с коронавирусом в Вяземском доме престарелых стабилизировалась - директор". Интерфакс-Россия (in русский). April 23, 2020. Retrieved May 30, 2020.
External links[edit]
- Егорова, Анастасия (April 17, 2020). "Вирус пришел в дома престарелых" [Virus came in care homes for the elderly]. Novaya Gazeta (in русский). Retrieved June 1, 2020.
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