The corona virus has also reached the old people's and nursing home in Bavaria. The situation there is getting tighter every day - the alarm is now being raised.
- The corona virus * continues to spread.
- In the meantime, it has also reached old people's and nursing homes.
- An alarm is raised there - there are also allegations to the authorities.
- Here you will find our guide to reporting and the Corona News from Bavaria. You can also find current numbers of cases in Bavaria as a map. The following recommendations for corona protective measures are currently available.
The corona virus is spreading increasingly in old people's homes, nursing homes and hospitals in Bavaria. "The situation is getting tighter every day," said AWO regional director Andreas Czerny in Munich on Thursday. "It spreads at a turbo speed in such a facility."
Corona virus in old people's homes: "We need this protective equipment immediately"
The AWO , like Caritas, therefore demands that nurses be better equipped with protective clothing. Gabriele Stark-Angermeier from the Caritas board of directors in the Archdiocese of Munich and Freising described that it was "really, really difficult" to get material. Some facilities are on the waiting list. But: "We need this protective equipment immediately."
Numerous houses reported infected residents and employees on Thursday. A complete home was vacated in the Rosenheim district and people were accommodated elsewhere. 31 of the 41 residents and several employees had been infected with the virus there.
Coronavirus: Helios Klinikum München West closes normal hospital operations
Helios Klinikum München West also closed its normal hospital operations on Wednesday after 14 patients and two employees had tested positive for Sars-CoV-2 there. The tests were then extended to all people in the clinic. According to the medical director Reza Ghotbi, only a few new infections were added.
One of the biggest problems in elderly care is the lack of protective clothing. "Even though we are officially on an equal footing with hospitals, we experience that we are left behind," said Georg Falterbaum, director of the Caritas Association in the Archdiocese of Munich and Freising. "The employees in outpatient and inpatient care are now at the forefront." The situation is becoming increasingly critical.
Corona crisis in old people's homes - allegations to authorities: distribution "extremely slow and sometimes very chaotic"
The authorities distributed the stocks "extremely slowly and sometimes very chaotically", criticized Stark-Angermeier. Outpatient nurses should not be forgotten either. They are currently the "bottom of the list" in tests for the virus and equipment. However, delays meant a risk for those in need of care, all of whom belonged to the Corona risk group.
Czerny sees it similarly. He would also have found a previous ban on entering old people's and nursing homes to be good. Some houses would have caused this on their own initiative. "In some cases we reacted faster than politics," he said. On Wednesday, Prime Minister Markus Söder (CSU) said that nursing homes should initially no longer accept new residents to protect against infection. Protective measures in the facilities are also to be tightened, for example by giving priority to the use of protective masks.
Nursing homes in Munich and Upper Bavaria: numerous corona infections reported
Caritas reported corona infections in 4 of 26 homes in Munich and Upper Bavaria on Thursday. In a nursing home of the Inner Mission in Munich, according to a spokesman, there were 25 infected residents and 17 employees tested positive for the corona virus on Thursday. But nobody was in the hospital.
According to a spokesman, around 15 nursing homes run by the Bavarian Diakonie have had a total of around 65 infections to date. Two thirds of the cases are residents and one third are employees. There were ten deaths among the sick residents. In the Miesbach district, a good 20 employees of a rehab clinic tested positive for Sars-CoV-2, and dozens of patients were isolated. The virus was also found in homes in the Munich district .
Landkreis Schweinfurt: residents and employees in nursing home tested positive for coronavirus
At the Werneck district nursing home (KAPH) in the Schweinfurt district in Lower Franconia, 21 out of 26 residents and 4 employees tested positive for the virus in a living area. "Unfortunately, two residents are not doing so well, but most of them are mostly symptom-free or have only minor complaints," said Matthias Gehrig of the Schweinfurt Health Office. On Thursday afternoon, all around 180 employees were to be tested, as were people in other areas of the house. In the Hans Sponsel House of the AWO in Würzburg, 10 employees and 38 residents had recently tested positive for Sars-CoV-2, 4 residents had already died.
dpa
