Munich is also fighting the corona wave.
The situation is sometimes precarious: According to Merkur.de information, asymptomatic infected nurses are on duty.
But the problem is much bigger.
Corona is
raging in Germany just before Christmas -
Munich
and
Upper Bavaria
are also partially massively affected.
The situation can
be felt
in
nursing
: According to information from
Merkur.de
,
nursing staff are on duty
in the state capital and in the surrounding area
despite a positive corona test
.
The
ver.di union
confirms these descriptions.
She is complaining about a massive problem - that
goes far beyond the corona emergency
.
Munich
- The current
wave of corona infections
and the general
care emergency are causing
some terrifying conditions
in
Upper Bavaria
: According to information from
Merkur.de
*, nursing staff are currently deployed in clinics and care facilities in and around Munich
despite a positive corona test
- provided that the employees concerned
show
no
symptoms of illness
.
The precarious situation is apparently an acute consequence of the high number of corona infections.
According to expert assessments, however, a general problem is also reflected: The shortage of nursing staff as well as the sometimes
extremely adverse working conditions
in the professional field.
Corona in Munich: Despite a positive test - nurses continue to work
Our editors
have
received
information about
care workers who
have
tested positive for Corona
from several sources - corresponding work requirements from at least three facilities are known, the number of unreported cases could be higher.
However, the whistleblowers asked not to disclose their employers out of concern about the negative consequences.
According to the information, only a
short quarantine is set
in the affected areas after a diagnosed illness
.
As a result, the employees are said
to have been sent back to
work with
FFP2 masks
or to become general.
Christian Reischl
,
responsible for the
health
department
at the
ver.di service union in Munich
, confirmed
Merkur.de
* corresponding descriptions.
"We have heard that too," he said on request.
"And not just once, but more often."
The current practice is thus in sharp
contrast to the public presentation
.
However, ver.di did not want to name specific institutions.
"Officially, everything is different everywhere, of course, but the situation has repeatedly emerged over the past few weeks," said Reischl.
It is also conceivable that the situation will worsen in the coming weeks - but that is difficult to forecast and depends on the
further development of the corona case numbers
.
Corona emergency in care: infected employees were to be expected in the first wave
Reischl also emphasized, however, that the explosive situation is not new in principle.
With the
first Corona wave in spring
, the procedure was different - but the result was de facto the same: "At that time, only employees with Corona symptoms were tested anyway," he explained.
At the beginning of the pandemic, massive
corona outbreaks, for example in nursing homes
in
Bavaria
, repeatedly caused
horror.
There are similar cases again now.
The
use of apparently ill employees
is of course partly due to the acute need for
care for people
suffering from
corona
, said Reischl.
However, the
ver.di representative
cited
the
precarious situation in nursing
in general
as the real reason for the situation
- as well as the often difficult life situation of foreign employees in particular, which could promote infections.
Many nurses live "on 30 square meters in dormitories" and are also not able to travel home due to valid restrictions.
“That of course increases the desire for social contact,” he explained.
The
corona rules
are probably not always adhered to
.
The description is reminiscent of grievances in the meat industry, which led to violent outbreaks in the summer.
At the same time, there were
sometimes
blatant differences in the daily work of the carers
in the course of the
Corona crisis
.
While there is
sometimes a massive workload
in the
intensive care units
, other workers were underemployed, especially during the first wave - the reason, for example, was the
postponement of planned interventions as a result of the pandemic
.
The intensive care beds are currently busy again.
Corona and care: emergency result of old problems - nursing trainees "burned up in the company"
Reischl warned that
there was no
acute way out of the problem
.
The situation is also the result of long-term neglect - "In principle, this state of emergency has existed since the 1990s," he said.
“Of course you can now set positive incentives, raise wages, strive for better care codes.
But it is very difficult to act in the short term. "
It is true that “many young people”
have been
trained in care professions
in recent years
.
However, a large number of them were
"burned"
in the company.
“They say: I'm finishing my apprenticeship now, but I don't really want to work like that,” the
unionist
explained
.
There are cases of young nursing assistants who were left alone on a night shift with 27 patients: "These people actually want to help, but they are appalled by and overwhelmed with everyday work," said Reischl
Merkur.de
*.
Not only in the
corona crisis
went
sprawling working hours
problems.
Even in regular operations, due to the tense personnel situation, colleagues have to step in for colleagues again and again: "As a result, partnerships break up, with a family it is difficult anyway." The consequences are now apparently also
felt in
Munich and the surrounding area
in the pandemic.
(
fn
) *
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