According to the intensive care register, nowhere in Germany – except in Berlin – is the proportion of people in intensive care units as high as in Saxony. Here, 26 percent of all available intensive care beds are occupied by corona patients (Berlin 26.7 percent). Measured by the capacity of the intensive care beds, Bavaria has the third highest proportion of corona intensive care patients with 18.3 percent.
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Nationwide, there are currently around 40 percent more Covid 19 patients in intensive care units than in the first wave in spring. In Saxony there are even five times as many, said the President of the German Hospital Association Gerald Gaß of “Welt am Sonntag”. In addition, there would be around 16,000 Covid 19 sufferers nationwide in normal wards. The effort for their care is significantly higher than for other patients, explained Gass. He warned that in some regions, even maximum care providers such as university hospitals are approaching their limits. At the same time, Gaß rejected the criticism that hospitals were dramatizing the situation in order to force financial aid.
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