Georgia may start sending patients home for treatment
By Anastasia Sokhadze
Tuesday, April 28
As for today, there is only one patient in the country who is treated at home. As Paata Imnadze, Deputy Head of the Centers for Disease Control, explained a few days ago, the patient lives with his son, who has already been infected with the virus and has recovered. Other details of how the patient is treated at home, by whom and by what criteria, however, are unknown.
“So far, the country has the resources and, accordingly, we are treating mild forms of the virus in the hospital,” stated Imnadze.
All patients are treated at the hospital. The average wait infected people have to endure is as long as 16-18 days, but some patients take over 31 days to recover fully.
Infectious diseases specialist, Maia Butsashvili, thinks that treatment at clinics for mild forms of the virus is, on one hand, a waste of large resources and, on the other hand, overwhelming for the patients themselves.
Tamta Bliadze, a family doctor at Evex Clinics, believes that if the patient's condition allows it, home treatment can be much more comfortable.
