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Coronavirus: Bundeswehr in the fight against the invisible enemy

2021-11-27T13:11:40.496Z


They are pictures like from a disaster film: Special teams bring seriously ill Covid patients from Bundeswehr machines to ambulances. The people can no longer be treated in their state.


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Münster / Osnabrück Airport on Friday evening.

Ambulances approach a special Bundeswehr aircraft.

On board: Several Covid patients who are brought to a clinic in Münster.

The aircraft called MedEvac, an Airbus 310 expanded for ambulance transport, first flew from the Bundeswehr base in Cologne to Memmingen to take in the patients.

Many hospitals' intensive care units are fully utilized in Bavaria, but there is still capacity in North Rhine-Westphalia.

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The patients are looked after by medical staff.

There is a medical director who, as a so-called senior emergency doctor, as we know it outside in civilian life, coordinates the transports.

Anesthesia teams, consisting of an anesthetist and an anesthesia intensive care nurse, are responsible for the patients themselves.

As a rule, when we fly six ventilated patients, two to three of these anesthesia teams are deployed here.

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In addition, around eight to ten emergency paramedics come on board, who mainly help with carrying and caring for the patients.

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The medical staff on board also has special training for each aircraft. This means that you need basic training for Medevac flights and also so-called supplementary modules for the A310 or the A400M that flies in Wunstorf, for example.

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It is predominantly the intensive care units in the southern federal states such as Bavaria, Saxony or Thuringia that have already reached their limits.

Hamburg, Mecklenburg-Western Pomerania and Lower Saxony have now accepted Covid patients from other federal states.

The new Omicron variant of the coronavirus is now causing great concern.

According to the Hessian Minister of Social Affairs, Kai Klose, Omicron has "very likely" arrived in Germany, as he announced on Twitter.

Several mutations typical of Omikron were found in a person returning from South Africa.

The person was isolated.

Source: spiegel

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