The US Navy hospital ship USNS Comfort was supposed to relieve the New York clinics. The 272 meter long ship has 1000 beds and 12 operating theaters and has been in front of the US metropolis since Monday. As already reported 20 minutes, no coronavirus patients are treated on the USNS Comfort. The ship serves to relieve the hospitals and takes over all other sick people. But that’s exactly the crux.
Because the clinics are overrun by Covid 19 patients, the hospitals report almost no other patients, since the population largely stays at home. “To be honest, it’s a joke,” said Michael Dowling, director of Northwell Health, New York’s largest hospital system. “We are in a crisis, this is a battlefield,” continued Dowling. Because while people in the hospitals die in the waiting rooms because there is no place for treatment, there are only 20 patients on the Comfort.
More than 2,800 corona patients and others follow
Dislodging a patient on the Comfort is like running a gauntlet. Extreme rules apply, such as, before a patient is transferred to the hospital ship nytimes.com reported. Meanwhile, Dowling had to reschedule in his hospitals, every unused place was converted into a medical center. Over 2800 corona patients are currently gathering and the clinics are being overrun. Because New York reported around 50,000 infected people on Thursday – not including the undisclosed figure.
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Doctors and nursing staff are poorly equipped and massively overwhelmed. It is believed that most are already infected with the virus themselves because they have to use the same equipment over and over again. Nevertheless, the Comfort refuses to take over Covid 19 patients.
«It’s pretty ridiculous. If they don’t help us with the people we need help for, what is the intention? »Dowling wonders. When asked about the doctor’s criticism, the Department of Defense referred to the daily statement by US President Donald Trump. The only thing he said there was that the ship did not accept corona patients. “Should our mission change, we will do what we can to achieve it,” said Captain Patrick Amersbach, head of medical staff at Comfort.
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