Copenhagen's main hospital, Rigshospitalet, and other hospitals across the country are seeing a surge in cases of children with severe pneumonia. An exceptionally large number of children have contracted serious pneumonia this year, and many have required drainage tubes, doctors at Rigshospitalet, Aarhus University Hospital, and Odense University Hospital confirmed to a television station, according to the newspaper BT.
وصرح كبير الأطباء في مستشفى جامعة أودنسي نيلز فيسكر بأن الالتهاب الرئوي عند الأطفال “كان أكثر ظهوراً بشكل ملحوظ هذا العام” ، كما قال بأن هناك عدد قليل من الوفيات بين الأطفال بسبب المرض، وأضاف أن سبب الزيادة الحادة هو “العدد الكبير بشكل استثنائي من الإصابات بالمكورات العقدية من المجموعة A”.
Streptococcus is usually a harmless bacterium, but since December there has been a sharp increase in the incidence of dangerous invasive group A streptococcus, also known as invasive strep-A.
At Rigshospitalet, chief physician in the pediatrics and adolescents department, Eva Musfeldt-Jepsen, said that there has been an increase in the number of cases that required hospitalization, and in the first three months of this year alone, drainage tubes have been placed in the lungs of 20 children so far, and this number is equivalent to what was used during the previous four years combined.
For this reason, Rigshospitalet had to send children from Shelland to Odense. Ypesen reported that the number of cases was actually very large, but hospitals only admit advanced cases for treatment, which are cases that require the insertion of drainage tubes from the child's lung.
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