Divi boss calls situation in intensive care units “very tense”
According to the President of the German Interdisciplinary Association for Intensive Care and Emergency Medicine (Divi), Gernot Marx, the situation in the intensive care units in German clinics is unusually tense for a summer. “We have to make sure again that we keep our ranks closed, which means we have to shift staff, we have to get staff from the outside, so after two weekends we also work the third weekend.”said Marx on ZDF. “Unfortunately, we have to postpone some operations that are not absolutely necessary so that we can take care of all our emergencies properly and safely.”
Marx had already pointed out at the weekend that more than half of the intensive care units (55 percent) were no longer operating as usual. Various factors are coming together, as he made clear on Monday. Currently, not only are twice as many Covid patients being treated in intensive care as at the same time last year, there are also almost 2,000 fewer intensive care beds available and many employees in the clinics are sick.
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