Surgeon with free beds, medical equipment claims ability to help coronavirus-hit New York hamstrung by red tape

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The surgeon with free beds, medical equipment claims ability to help coronavirus-hit New York hamstrung by red tape

As the coronavirus continues to cripple New York – threatening to overwhelm the state's health care system the death toll continues to climb – one New York City cardiovascular surgeon is lamenting that efforts to help are being met with red tape and silence.

"We began making proposals to hospitals in different boroughs on Monday, March 23 – offering to donate space and provide services," Dr. Yan Katsnelson, founder of the USA Vein Clinics, Vascular and Fibroid Centers, told Fox News. "But there was resistance from hospital leadership due to legal uncertainties of how hospitals can treat patients at facilities they do not control by staff they do not employ. The hospitals we have contacted are currently focusing on increasing space generally within their own facilities."

Katsnelson declined to specifically name which hospitals the team approached, highlighting, "Hospitals are composed of people doing best they can under very difficult circumstances" and that "legal impediments" of the state and city cannot be impeded on them. New York remains the U.S. epicenter of the virus – officially termed COVID-19 – with more than 130,000 verified cases and more than 4,758 lives lost. But from Katsnelson's lens, his team "proposed creative solutions" in the form of utilizing well-equipped physician clinics across the city – yet the stress of the situation has enabled little time or resources for the status quo to be changed.

"Governor Cuomo has requested beds, personnel, and supplies. He further stated one is not good enough; the state needs all three together," Katsnelson claimed. "We offered New York City hospitals, 600 beds, 100 people staff, and supplies (for free).  We have sent our offer to governor email and answered his Tweet and there was no response. We give him exactly what he asked for, and nobody called us from the governor's office."