Amiran Gamkrelidze: The medical sector has a huge workload- the issue of setting up new field hospitals may arise

Amiran Gamkrelidze, director of the National Center for Disease Control, says the workload of the hospital sector is high and that the issue of opening new field hospitals may be raised.

According to Gamkrelidze, up to 8000 beds have been mobilized.

"Up to 7,000 patients are being treated in the hospital so far. This is a huge workload on the medical sector, both in terms of infrastructure and human resources. The medical staff is very exhausted, however so far up to 8000 beds have been mobilized and resources are available. If the epidemic situation continues at about this pace, when we have 4000-5000 new cases every day and the number of cases is periodically more than the number of recovered people, then the issue of adding new field hospitals may arise", - Gamkrelidze said.