"Just want to hold her hand": Helpless woman (85) is said to be alone in the rehab clinic because of Corona - daughter is desperately fighting for a visit

Doris Wierer's mom (85) should go into rehab all by herself, although she is afraid and is very dependent.

Inhuman, thinks the daughter - and fought.

• Helga Bell (85) from Anzing has to go to rehabilitation in Lower Bavaria after a hip operation.

• Because of the corona pandemic, she is actually not allowed to receive visitors at the rehab - and is therefore full of fear.

• Her daughter took to the barricades because she found the regulation inhuman - with success.

Anzing

- Doris Wierer (52) was very angry until Monday evening.

Her mom Helga should start her

this Tuesday

.

For three weeks, the 85-year-old is in the

-

in

life, should there be healthy after surgery.

The problem: the elderly lady has to master it alone, without her daughter.

So the clinic announced.

Because of

-

every visit in which

-

prohibited.

"I would like to be there on the day of arrival, unpack her suitcase and give her the feeling that she is not alone," said Wierer in an interview with

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But she is officially not allowed to do that.

According to the regulations, she is not allowed to visit her mother for three weeks, not even outdoors.

“What you do with the elderly is inhuman,” says the Forstinninger - and fights for the right to visit.

Visiting restrictions in the corona pandemic in Bavaria: Mom cried when the daughter left in the evening

Who in the

-

and then is old still sick, has a hard time.

Doris Wierer noticed this when her mother Helga had to go to the Ebersberg

few weeks ago

.

She fell at home and broke her thigh neck.

Alternating with her brother, Wierer visited her mother every day, took care of her, washed her sometimes to support the nursing staff, and put cream on her legs.

She does not want to criticize the hospital, but of course they do not fulfill all of the mother's wishes there.

“As a daughter, you just do that.” In the evening, mom cried every time and asked if she would be back soon.

Rehabilitation in the corona pandemic: 85-year-old is completely dependent

This time her mother will have to make it alone, Wierer has been told over and over again.

Rehabilitation clinics can currently decide for themselves whether and in what form they allow visits.

The clinic in Aidenbach did not allow any visits - initially.

An absurdity, thinks Wierer.

Her mother is not independent and has very poor hearing despite hearing aids.

"Since the death of my papa my mom is almost incapable of living."

That stroke of fate was five years ago,

and since then my

has not even managed to call anywhere.

“Talking to her on the phone is a disaster, she just doesn't understand me.” There are also other physical ailments.

“She cannot open a bottle herself, she has no strength in her hands.” Her legs were itchy and had to be put on twice a day.

Now after the operation?

Impossible for the 85-year-old.

Rehabilitation in Corona times in Bavaria: "I would like to encourage her."

Above all, her

very afraid of

.

In front of the unfamiliar environment, the strange people.

You have big problems with change.

"I would like to hold her hand and encourage her," says Wierer.

That makes her angry, helpless.

And "infinitely sad".

Wierer was particularly angry because there had been

months

since the first

to think about such cases.

It was clear that the numbers would rise again in autumn.

Why has the

not developed a concept

to make

possible?

“I would really like to be able to accompany my

on the first day.” And then to visit her at least once a week.

“I also do a

every time I

have to.

Or put on a protective suit. ”But one is not even prepared

to bring

her

outside to the clinic for a visit.

Another email was not answered at all.

Ministry of Health comments on rehab visits in corona pandemic

And that although Wierer has received a clear statement from the Bavarian Ministry of Health on the subject (this is available to the editors).

One has told her that it "special visitation" for on demand

-

are, "in which hospitals comparable medical care takes place."

are then

possible

there under certain conditions

.

After several days of tenacious struggle and the demand

directs the

-

now.

Doris Wierer is allowed to

accompany

her mom to the start of

and then visit her once a week.

Before

doing

this, she has to

do

a

every time

, as Asklepios press spokesman Mathias Eberenz explains.

This is possible as a so-called hardship rule.

But why was Wierer left in the dark for days?

"That didn't go smoothly, I'll admit," says spokesman Eberenz.

A lot of relatives are "understandably" trying to get exceptions for

at

the moment

.

This is always an individual decision on the part of the management of the respective clinic department.

“We are at the limit,” said Eberenz.

There is an immense shortage of skilled workers and the challenges of the pandemic have to be mastered, which creates enormous stress.

"And mistakes happen under stress."

Daughter can visit mother on rehab - an exceptional case in Corona times

Eberenz emphasizes that the case of Helga Bell is an exception.

"We cannot

let in

all

, that would put us at high risk for the other patients." Here it is always important to weigh up, also based on the current numbers on site.

How dynamic the situation in

-

is at the moment, then shows up on Tuesday morning, the day on which Doris Wierer her mother after

wanted to.

"Admission stop" is what the clinic says.

One has a

case among the patients, now series tests have to be carried out, the situation has to be determined.

Helga Bell is not expected to start

her

in

a few days

.

When exactly is unclear.

Only one thing is certain these days: your daughter Doris Wierer will be by your side.

Because she fought for it.

Hospitals and rehabilitation clinics in the corona pandemic: cases over and over again

In a geriatric specialist clinic in Lenggries, it was not a visitor but a nurse who carried the coronavirus into the facility.

There was also a major coronavirus outbreak in the Schongau hospital, where employees are also considered to be the carriers of the infection.

Almost all residents of a nursing home in Bavaria have been infected with the corona virus.

There were eight dead.

Now the criminal investigation is investigating.

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