Five children have reportedly been rushed to the Ippokrateio General Hospital in Thessaloniki over the past 30 days, after contracting the Covid-19 illness.
According to the hospital’s infectious diseases paediatrician and director of the Pediatric Clinic Emanouil Roilidis, three of the children were admitted in the last 48 hours, whilst one of the three admitted recently, a 15-month old girl from a Roma settlement at Drosero in northern Greece, is in serious but stable condition.
Roilidis said the child from the region of Xanthi is battling pneumonia on account of an underlying health issue.
A 3-month-old infant with mild symptoms of a respiratory infection is being treated and is expected to be discharged on Tuesday, while the third child - 9 months old and with gastroenteritis - will remain in hospital for a few more days, he added.
The Ippokratio hospital in Thessaloniki has been designated as a coronavirus reference hospital for children, and is the only hospital in northern Greece with an ICU specifically for children. Its ICU holds seven beds and an incubator. It also has two ICU beds for children infected with Covid-19.
