Anyone who needs psychiatric help in Saxony-Anhalt usually has to be prepared for extended waiting times. “There are exorbitantly long waiting lists. It is also not easy to break down, ”said the chairman of the state's psychiatry committee, Hans-Henning Flechtner, in Magdeburg on Wednesday. The supply situation is very difficult for children and young people as well as for adults.
Magdeburg - In the outpatient area, for example, attempts are made to avoid lists of more than four to six weeks.
"Under pandemic conditions you are suddenly waiting for several months in the outpatient area," said Flechtner.
In day clinics, patients may have to wait six months or a year.
In the clinics, it depends very much on the urgency.
The regional differences are big.
In principle, there were many more emergency rooms in the pandemic.
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"We can only try to examine exactly what the problems are," said Flechtner, director of the University Clinic for Psychiatry, Psychotherapy and Psychosomatic Medicine for Children and Adolescents in Magdeburg.
It must be looked at where clinical treatment is necessary, where an outpatient area or whether the private practice area can be used.
There is no patent recipe, it can only go back to normal operation step by step.
Due to the corona, many facilities had to close partially or completely.
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