How far-reaching are the long-term consequences of Sars-CoV-2?
There are sleep disorders, depression and fears due to corona restrictions.
Practices complain about an "avalanche" of laws.
The Bavarian statutory health insurance physicians treat 85 percent of
corona patients
and suspected cases.
Psychotherapists are concerned - and notice a significant increase in the number of cases.
Corona measures
caused stress, sleep disorders, depression and anxiety.
Here we offer you the current case numbers in Bavaria in a map.
Munich
- Bavaria’s medical practices are
at the forefront
in the fight against the
corona virus
.
Over 85 percent of patients with a suspected or actual infection were treated there.
That was more than a million by the end of September.
In short: "International studies show that it is the practices that are responsible for the good progress of the pandemic in Germany compared with other countries," says Wolfgang Krombholz, Chairman of the Bavarian Association of Statutory Health Insurance Physicians.
Even if it will soon be a question of protecting large parts of the population with a
vaccination against the corona virus
, Bavaria can count on its doctors in private practice.
2,600 of them have already agreed to work in the vaccination centers that the counties are currently building.
Krombholz does not believe that this could lead to supply problems within the practices.
That is an
organizational question
.
Corona measures and the consequences: KVB recognizes an increase in psychological problems
Claudia Ritter-Rupp, the second deputy KVB chairwoman, reports on completely different side effects of the crisis.
The often
lack of social and physical affection
is an enormous challenge for the human psyche - in some cases even a shock.
"The longer the crisis lasts, the sooner the self-healing powers are overwhelmed, which then often leads to an increase in psychological symptoms or illnesses," says Ritter-Rupp.
The result: "Symptoms of stress, sleep disorders, depression and, in particular, fears increase due to the everyday restrictions and financial effects." The psychotherapists in Bavaria notice this.
"While the number of cases fell slightly in the first quarter due to the corona, they rose significantly again in the second quarter, and especially now," says Ritter-Rupp.
Due to the circumstances, the
video consultation
also
gained
significantly in importance
in
psychotherapeutic treatment
.
While it basically didn't play a role in 2019, in the first two quarters of 2020 20 percent of these treatments took place from screen to screen.
This cannot be a permanent condition, says Ritter-Rupp: "The video consultation with its many limitations and obstacles is in the current situation a supplement to treatment and ensuring continuity of treatment, but not a substitute."
Corona: Doctors complain about the madness of bureaucracy in Germany
What is also bothering doctors and therapists is a veritable “avalanche” of legal requirements that they
also have to deal
with in the
corona pandemic
.
"17 federal laws and 34 legal ordinances from Berlin alone", Krombholz calculates - "and other state legal regulations".
If even employees from the ministries had difficulties in keeping an overview, one could hardly ask the doctors to do so.
"We ask politicians to give us time to deal with the new regulations," says Krombholz.
His deputy Pedro Schmelz becomes clearer: “I can't help but get the impression that
the motto 'quantity instead of quality' applies in
Jens Spahn's lawmaker
,” he told the Federal
Minister
of Health.
The result is that the practices currently have to spend around 61 working days a year on the resulting bureaucracy.
“This time is not available for treating the patient,” says Schmelz.
