He was operated on under local anesthesia due to a shortage of anesthetists – the testimony is shocking

The problem of understaffing in the health sector in Crete is beyond all imagination.

Patients who require anesthesia surgery are asked to endure unbearable pain, because, due to lack of sufficient number of anesthetists, they wait for a long time without surgery, which is necessary for their health, or they undergo local surgery. anesthesia drug.

The latest happened in Veniselio, a 58-year-old man who had to undergo surgery on his wrist, which was injured in a car accident ten days ago and nearly amputated.

He was put in a cast, but his arm would be paralyzed if he didn’t have surgery. After ten days of waiting in the hospital with arm pain and day after day for him and his accompanying wife to enter the operating room, the decision was made to operate, but he was given local anesthesia.

In another case the pain was unbearable as described by the patient’s wife who was not given full anesthesia as an anesthesiologist was required.

Source: neakriti.gr