The Cologne clinics are still heavily burdened by the corona pandemic. According to the city, there were still 18 free intensive care beds in Cologne at the weekend, which means six percent of the total capacity.
99 corona patients are currently being treated there, 52 of them are connected to ventilators. In the case of full occupancy, however, a few more intensive care beds could be made available.
Corona: Cologne intensive care carers are “overloaded”
The situation at the university clinic is exemplary: “With currently 45 Covid-19 patients, 25 of them in our intensive care units, we are busy,” explains Edgar Schömig, director of the clinic, to the “Kölner Stadt-Anzeiger”. “That means: other urgently required medical treatments must be postponed in large numbers indefinitely.”
The university clinic is currently still able to accept corona patients from other clinics who can no longer be treated in smaller hospitals due to a serious illness – but “in small numbers”, says Schömig: “Our intensive care staff in particular has been there since Weeks heavily loaded and also overloaded. There is not enough experienced staff available for the urgently needed replacement and for relief. “
Similar situation across the country
The situation is similar across Germany. “In individual countries such as Saxony, the number of intensive care patients is five times as high as in April. Clinics there are reaching their capacity limits or have already exceeded them, ”warned Gerald Gaß, President of the German Hospital Association (DKG) in an interview in“ Welt am Sonntag ”.
According to the DKG, there are currently 40 percent more Covid-19 intensive care patients in the ward than during the first wave in spring. In addition, there are around 16,000 Covid 19 cases that would be treated on normal wards.
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