Amiran Gamkrelidze: The biggest challenge for the healthcare system is beds and human resources, today we have 1678 infected medical personnel

According to Amiran Gamkrelidze, head of the National Center for Disease Control, the biggest challenge for the healthcare system is free beds in hospitals and doctors' resources. As he answered the question of InterPressNews, the bigger challenge related to human resources.

At the same time, according to Gamkrelidze, the medical community is constantly trained on infection control in order to minimize the risks of infection.

"Both the beds and the human resources are challenges, but there is a bigger challenge related to human resources. Today we have 1678 infected medical personnel that is 5.2% of the total infected, most of them have already recovered and returned to work. I emphasize once again that our medical community is constantly trained on infection control issues in order to minimize the risks of infection of the medical personnel who are critical in fighting against this pandemic,” Gamkrelidze said.