Penza, 24 June 2021. PenzaNews. The number of intensive care beds at the Penza Regional Clinical Centre for Specialized Types of Medical Care, where patients with COVID-19 and severe pneumonia are admitted, doubled by half since Thursday, June 24. This was announced by Dzhamilya Kurmaeva, deputy chief physician of the centre.

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“From today on, we have 60 emergency beds instead of 40 as before,” she told journalists during a briefing at the institution.

Dzhamilya Kurmaeva added that 38 patients were in intensive care at that time, of whom 29 were on ventilators.

“There is not a single vaccinated patient among them. [...] I should point out that one in three is under the age of 50,” stressed the deputy chief physician.

The centre has a total of 517 beds, she says, with coronavirus and pneumonia patients occupying 380 beds.

“We are now on duty for severe patients only. About 30-40 people are admitted every day, 2-3 of them are sent to intensive care,” she said.