The director of one of the largest hospitals in Sofia,

The director of one of the largest hospitals in Sofia, treating COVID-19 patients, Asen Baltov told NOVA TV that the capacity of his hospital for treating patients with coronavirus is full. In the past week, the number of hospitalized COVID-19 patients in Pirogov Hospital doubled. 68 people receive treatment there currently, two of whom are in the ICU.

“Unfortunately, we cannot admit any more patients. at the end of the day, we do not treat only coronavirus infections. Pirogov takes one the extremely heavy burden of trauma patients from Sofia and the country,” Baltov said.

He went on to explain his hospital is not facing shortage of doctors “but they are extremely tired. It has been six months of non-stop work. Unfortunately, the number of volunteers in coronavirus wards is very low.”

He also expressed concern that doctors, other medical personnel and patients from non-COVID-19 wards in the hospital do not take as many precautions to protect against contracting the virus, as he would like.

“I’m sorry to say the rest of my collegues, who work in the other wards have developed a relaxed approach [in the past two months].”