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Critical situation: ambulance in front of the Oberlausitzer Bergland Clinic
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After reports of triage statements by a doctor from Zittau, the Oberlausitzer Bergland Clinic has confirmed that the corona situation there is critical.
The intensive care medicine in the Oberlausitzer Bergland Clinic is "reaching the limits of what is affordable," said the provider, the health center of the Görlitz district.
The capacity of the two specially set up corona infection stations of a total of 100 beds in the two locations of the clinic cannot currently be exhausted because there is a lack of staff.
However, the facility also said that all patients who come to the two hospitals were receiving "the best possible therapy."
Should the corona stations no longer be able to accept patients, the sick would be flown to the surrounding hospitals.
If that is no longer possible, the already tense situation will worsen significantly.
"We are in the epicenter"
The medical director of the Oberlausitzer Bergland Clinic, Mathias Mengel, reportedly spoke of triage in an online forum on Tuesday evening.
Triage means that medical professionals must decide who to help first due to scarce resources.
Mengel told the news portal “T-Online”: “In the past few days we have been in the situation several times that we had to decide who gets oxygen and who doesn't.”
Attempts are made to move the patients for whom there is no care to another clinic.
"But we are in the epicenter, some houses no longer accept." The decision could also mean that there would then no longer be any appropriate help for a patient who is unable to be transferred.
So far, the clinic has only commented indirectly on these statements.
Triage is a term from emergency medicine that describes a method for assessing the severity of illnesses and injuries, it said.
The clinic did not deny the doctor's clear sentences.
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