Many intensive care units in Germany are almost fully utilized.
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Full intensive care units and overloaded authorities are pushing the Bavarian capital to its limits. The Bundeswehr already has to step in to help.
Munich – The Bavarian corona traffic light has been red * since Monday (November 8th), and the virus is also striking back mercilessly in Munich *. As in the previous winter, the clinics are again facing overload! In absolute numbers, there are fewer Corona * patients in the hospitals. However, due to the lack of nursing staff, not all intensive care beds can be occupied.
Axel Fischer, Managing Director of the Munich Clinic, sounds the alarm: “The situation is serious, the staff is partly exhausted.” According to Fischer, 75 Covid patients are currently (as of November 8) being treated in the five hospitals of the Munich Clinic, around one of them Third in intensive care units. That already corresponds to the highest level of the third wave.
Munich Clinic: All corona patients in the intensive care unit are not vaccinated
It is particularly frustrating that currently (as of November 8) all patients who are cared for in the intensive care unit are not vaccinated. The rate is also 80 percent on the normal wards. Fischer: “A lot of inductions could be avoided. There is a wave of the unvaccinated. ”He could only appeal to be immunized. The Munich Clinic, for example, started booster vaccinations for its staff weeks ago.
Christoph Spinner, infectious disease specialist and pandemic officer at the University Hospital on the right of the Isar, is also convinced: “In my opinion, the most important and most effective measure are vaccinations. Countries with higher vaccination rates have significantly lower infection incidences, as data from Spain and Israel show. ”
To the right of the Isar, 38 Covid-19 patients are currently being treated (as of November 8), 14 of them in intensive care units – more than a year ago. Fully vaccinated people with severe disease are the exception. Because a good fifth of intensive care beds are required for Corona * patients, according to Spinner, this already requires restrictions on regular operations. To make matters worse, many clinics, including in Munich, cannot operate all of the intensive care beds that have been set up due to a lack of nursing staff.
Corona in Munich: Third Order Clinic warns of impending “catastrophe in winter”
At the LMU Klinikum Großhadern, 40 corona patients are currently (as of November 8) being treated, eight of them in the intensive care unit. The highest occupancy was recorded there on January 4, 2021 with 101 cases, 37 of them in the intensive care unit. According to a spokeswoman for the LMU clinic, the intensive care beds were scarce even before the pandemic, and Corona had exacerbated the situation extremely. Although there is no loss of nurses, there are more illness-related absences than a year ago.
In the Third Order Clinic, 87 percent of the currently 14 corona patients (as of November 8) are unvaccinated. Managing director Harald Schrödel says: “We are now seeing significantly younger patients who suffer from a more severe course with the Delta variant.” we can no longer avert the catastrophe in winter. “
Meanwhile, there has been a delay in reporting in Munich for days due to the large number of new positive cases. The Munich incidence is therefore likely to be a lot higher than the value reported by the RKI, admits the health department. This officially stood at 98.2 on November 8th. So far, 70 percent of all Munich residents over the age of 12 have full vaccination protection. The city has been supported by the Bundeswehr in registering the cases since Monday (November 8th) *. It is said that the number of reports can no longer be dealt with with municipal personnel alone. (kv / cos) * tz.de is an offer from IPPEN.MEDIA
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