The auxiliary hospital will be dismantled by the end of August. Health care doctor Marc Block: "The situation in the district is currently extremely relaxed".
Ebersberg - The makeshift hospital in the triple gymnasium in Ebersberg has been ready for eight weeks. Beds, containers with oxygen, self-painted pictures of children on the walls - everything is set up. Only, no corona patient has ever seen the auxiliary clinic from the inside. The serious case of a large-scale Covid disease of district citizens has failed to materialize. Fortunately. Now the crisis team is considering how to proceed with the “emergency hospital”. From September 1st it will be available again to the Dr. Wintrich Realschule and associations.
Capacity increased to 500 beds
An unprecedented community effort was the establishment of the emergency clinic. Within a very short time, beds for 105 patients with breathing problems were created in the gym. With the actual care places in the Ebersberg district hospital, the capacity could be increased to 500 beds. The renovation cost 155,000 euros, the Free State took over 80 percent, the rest of the district.
The auxiliary clinic is to be dismantled by the end of August, the district office said. This had been agreed "mutually" with District Administrator Robert Niedergesäß (CSU) and TSV Ebersberg as well as with the school.
The capacities in the clinics of the rescue association of the districts of Ebersberg, Erding and Freising would currently be sufficient.
"Situation in the district is currently extremely relaxed"
"The situation in the district is currently extremely relaxed," says Marc Block, the Ebersberg health care provider. He is currently not assuming that the auxiliary hospital will be needed soon. There are currently 14 reported infections in the district (see graphic below).
The crisis team is currently considering whether there should be only one makeshift hospital for the rescue association of the three counties.
Block: Probably a second corona wave is coming
And what about a possible second corona wave? "It is likely that one will come," says the internist Block. However, he assumes that the wave is not so pronounced that the auxiliary hospital in Ebersberg is needed.
Stefan Huber, managing director of the Ebersberger Kreisklinik, agrees. The additional bed capacities in the gymnasium would not be needed, "since we can set up another 100 beds in the clinic if necessary," said the head of the hospital.
