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One hospital in Bavaria Freising, German, send patient Covid-19 to hospitals in Italy because their ICU is full and lacks health workers.
“Last week, on Wednesday or Thursday, we had to send a patient by helicopter to Merano (Italy),” the medical director of the hospital in Freising, Thomas Marx, told AFP. AFP on Thursday (18/11).
Marx explained that the hospital where he worked at the time handled 13 cases in the ICU, while the room could only accommodate 10 people.
Five of the number of patients treated in the ICU were infected with Covid-19. All of the Covid-19 patients have not been vaccinated.
Marx stated that the hospital had nowhere else to accommodate patients. According to him, a number of hospitals in Bavaria are also full.
The hospital also decided to send one patient, Merano, which is about 350 kilometers from Freising if taken by land.
“We are running out of capacity. That’s the reason we have to use these methods,” said Marx.
Germany has on several occasions received patients from neighboring countries because the hospitals in their home regions were full.
But now, it is Germany’s turn to face the rage of the fourth wave of the pandemic until hospitals in several states are overwhelmed.
Like the hospital in Freising, the clinics in Munich could no longer accommodate patients.
“The team persisted, but we are very frustrated because in the end we are the last hope for everything that goes wrong in society,” said Niklas Schneider, a doctor in the ICU at the Munich Schwabing Clinic.
People who are sick and whose lives are in danger, continued Schneider, come to the Munich clinic.
“We have to take care of them. They need help. It doesn’t matter if they were anti-Corona, anti-vaccine or fully vaccinated, even though we don’t have the last hospital room anymore.”
In addition to the surge in patients, Schneider also said he was frustrated by the rejection of vaccination in some places.
“I’m surprised that vaccinations aren’t being accepted even when we might be able to get (the shots). I really don’t understand how many people believe in misinformation horror stories about vaccines,” he said.
In recent weeks, the average vaccination rate in Germany has stagnated, even though the country is facing a surge in Covid-19 cases. Daily cases in the country touched 50 thousand over the past few days.
Senior health officials also asked for increased vaccination to reduce the rate of transmission. As a step to increase the vaccination program, the German parliament will decide on a new policy of restrictions for people who are not vaccinated.
In addition to low vaccinations, German health officials also complain that hospital capacity should be increased.
According to a magazine report Spiegel, in Germany there is only one in four hospitals that still have a place in the ICU at this time.
In addition, many parties also stated that the main problem of hospitals being overwhelmed was actually the lack of trained or competent health workers.
The health sector in Germany was already experiencing problems before the Covid-19 pandemic, ranging from long working hours, low wages. The added pressure during the pandemic makes people not want to work in this field.
Schneider noted that now the number of health workers is less than when they faced the first wave of Covid-19.
In line with Schneider, Marx said that the shortage of competent health workers at the hospital also complicates matters amid the Covid-19 surge.
“I admit the calmness of the staff in facing this new professional challenge. However, I know some people, inside, boil even when they don’t say it,” said Marx.
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