Sent from one emergency department to another: when can you go to Kaunas Hospital, and when only to Kaunas Clinics?

Sent from one emergency department to another: when can you go to Kaunas Hospital, and when only to Kaunas Clinics?

A reader named Karolina, who contacted the editorial office at the end of June, was outraged that misunderstandings are occurring after the former Red Cross Clinical Hospital in the center of Kaunas was closed.

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“Some say that in case of an accident you should go to the second hospital (LSMU Kaunas Hospital – editor’s note) on Josvainiai Street. You go there and they don’t accept you, even though there are zero people waiting. And I already know more than one person who was sent to another place.

On June 26, I had to experience this myself. And when I arrived and told the Kaunas Clinics that the Emergency Department operating on Josvainiai Street did not help and sent me to them, the staff did not hide: oh, they don’t have much there,” the reader named the problem that caused confusion.

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Lack of clarity

Faced with such a situation, Karolina wondered: then what are the jobs created for and why is the department operating in Josvainiai called emergency care, what then is that emergency care?

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