The situation in the hospitals in Bavaria is tense.
Many institutions are working to the limit.
But not only Corona is bothering them.
The shortage of staff and skilled workers causes problems for many clinics.
In addition, there are more and more Corona * patients.
The places in Bavaria's intensive care units are therefore becoming fewer and fewer.
Munich
- The number of
corona infections in Bavaria
continues to rise.
This is also linked to the number of people who have to
be
treated
in a
hospital
for
Covid-19
.
More and more institutions are working to the limit.
Now some clinics have imposed an admission freeze.
They
no longer
have
any capacity
in their
intensive care units
.
But not all beds are occupied by
corona patients
.
The number of corona patients in hospitals is steadily increasing
The
Robert Koch Institute
(RKI) reported almost 3000 new cases on Tuesday (as of December 22, 12 a.m.) in Bavaria.
110 people have
died
related to
Covid-19
in the past 24 hours
.
The
7-day incidence
is 215.9.
The health authorities of the districts and cities have been reporting
such high
numbers of Corona *
infections
to the
RKI
on a daily basis for some time now
.
It is therefore not surprising that the number of patients who have to
be treated in hospitals
for
Covid-19 is
increasing and increasing.
On Monday, the intensive care register of the German Interdisciplinary Association for Intensive and Emergency Medicine (DIVI) revealed that all
intensive care beds
in eight Bavarian cities and districts are
occupied.
These include the districts of Augsburg, Landshut, Munich, Neumarkt in der Oberpfalz, Kitzingen and Regen.
In the cities of Memmingen and Kaufbeuren, the intensive care units are also full.
And the
clinics are
also working to the
limit
in the suburb of the state capital
.
The Fürstenfeldbruck District Hospital has hardly any free
intensive care beds *
.
About half of it is occupied by
Covid patients
.
There is no staff to open additional beds.
Corona: shortage of staff in hospitals
However, not all
intensive care beds are
actually occupied.
There are several reasons for this.
The most obvious is the
lack of nursing staff
.
Hospitals
only register as many places as they can care for.
However, this number fluctuates, said Siegfried Hasenbein, managing director of the Bayerische Krankenhausgesellschaft, in an interview with
Münchner Merkur
.
Because: "The availability of the
staff
fluctuates constantly, for example due to illnesses."
Michael Findeisen from the Harlaching Clinic added: "The personnel effort is enormous -
if only
because the employees are only
allowed to treat
only
Corona *
cases
or only normal
intensive care
patients
for infection protection
reasons
."
That is why many municipalities are going creative ways to counteract the
shortage of personnel
at least a little.
The cities of
Nuremberg / Fürth / Erlangen
and the associated districts have now officially looked for helpers who
should relieve
the
staff
in the
hospitals
.
And the Bavarian Health Minister
Melanie Huml
(CSU), for example, appeals to medical students or trained nurses to register in the Bavarian nursing pool and to help.
Corona: Smaller hospitals no longer receive financial compensation for empty beds
The situation in the
hospitals
has also
changed compared to spring.
Another reason for free
intensive care beds
, although clinics have deregistered.
At the beginning of the
corona pandemic
, smaller facilities in particular kept beds
free
for
Covid 19 patients
.
In return, they received financial compensation for each space created in this way.
But this financial equalization expired on September 30, 2020.
In addition, many operations and intensive medical treatments were postponed in the spring.
At that time, too, fewer people went to
hospital
for treatment
for fear of contracting
corona
.
Now many houses are still busy catching up on the backlog from that time, said Dr.
Vanessa Rembold, also an intensive care physician at the Harlaching Clinic.
"The treatment of
corona patients
is still on-top."
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