Bremen health department: “The situation in the intensive care units is tight”

Stand date: 5. April 2021.

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• The number of intensive care corona patients in Bremen is increasing
• 17 intensive care beds and three ventilation places left for Covid patients
• According to the health department, however, there are still short-term reserves available

“The situation is definitely tight.” Lukas Fuhrmann, spokesman for the health department in Bremen, confirmed to buten un that the intensive care units in the clinics are increasingly busy. According to the German Intensive Care Register (DIVI), only 17 intensive care beds are currently free in the state of Bremen. According to Fuhrmann, one reason for this is the increasing number of corona patients. More and more people affected therefore need intensive medical care.

There are currently 52 people with Corona in intensive care units in the country; a week ago, on March 30, there were 40 according to the intensive care register. The numbers come from the clinics themselves, which report them to the intensive care register.

There are still three free ventilation places for corona patients

The intensive register does not show fluctuations within a day, said Fuhrmann’s spokesman. There are four free ventilation places for Covid19 patients, in fact, according to Fuhrmann, there are now only three on Monday evening. Nevertheless, it is not as dramatic as the situation appears.

Anyone who needed a Covid ventilation bed now would get one.

Lukas Fuhrmann, spokesman for the health department
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“Anyone who now needs a Covid ventilation bed would get one,” continued Fuhrmann. “Because there are other reserves in the clinics that can be activated at very short notice. Nevertheless, the situation in the intensive care units is tight.”

Most of the corona patients from Lower Saxony

The current situation in the intensive care units is also due to the care of patients from the surrounding area, as Fuhrmann said. In the clinics of the city of Bremen alone, 40 people with corona are currently in intensive care units, 19 of them come from Lower Saxony. There are also people from Bremen and Bremerhaven with other diseases. “We not only have Corona, other patients also have to be cared for. People with strokes and heart attacks.”

buten un binnen reported on the situation in the clinics last Wednesday. The number of corona patients who have to be treated in the hospital was not unusually high. But more and more of those affected need intensive medical treatment. The number had already reached a peak, but has been rising steadily since then.

There are a total of 170 intensive care beds that can currently be operated in the state of Bremen. In addition, as department spokesman Fuhrmann said, there are additional capacities that could be activated at short notice and an emergency reserve of 138 beds. These can also be set up within seven days.