Health Minister Fahrettin Koca had a meeting with university rectors, deans and hospital chief physicians with a video conference on corona virus.
Minister Koca, from the Twitter account of the video about the meeting, said, “There is a new development in the treatment table of patients with coronavirus (corona virus) today. reduce the total number of patients in our intensive care unit for the first time the scale of Turkey. Our scientists from our 6 universities agree. This is the result of measures, with the treatment followed. The result we will get with the measures is clear. ”
“3.5 PERCENT”
Addressing the rector, the dean and the chief physicians in the video, Koca said:
* Turkey is different from other countries as we have seen, this past week, what we see is 10 days more.
* The rate of increase in inpatient, intensive care patient and intubated patient tended to decrease.
* The patient, who entered intensive care for the first time today and was intubated, dropped numerically. In other words, there was a decrease of 3 – 3.5 percent.
* This is extremely important, and we see that the number of hospitalization days of the patient who is in intensive care every day decreases.
CURRENT SITUATION IN TURKEY
Following the emergence of the first cases in Turkey corona virus it passed 33 days. With the death of 95 people yesterday, the number of deaths increased to 1101 since 11 March. Health Minister Fahrettin Koca announced the total number of tests performed as 340 thousand 380 and the total number of cases as 52 thousand 167.
According to the data shared by Koca, the number of patients in intensive care was 1626, the number of intubated patients was 1021 and the number of recovered cases was 2965.