Jewish General Hospital ICU has treated nearly 300 COVID-19 patients in pandemic
Apr 27, 2021
It’s still hard for Ramtin Saeedi to breathe or talk. His words are slow and deliberate. He has to catch his breath between sentences.
“The first day I arrived here, I was in the midst of dying,” the 46-year-old said while sitting in a chair in his room in the intensive care unit at Montreal’s Jewish General Hospital.
He’s behind a sliding glass door in a negative pressure room, with an oxygen tube running through his nose.
Saeedi has been in the hospital since April 13. He said he thinks he caught the virus from his son, a university student studying online at home. The whole family was infected.
In recent days, Saeedi’s condition has improved. He praises the hospital staff who have helped him.
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