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"Internal traffic light has long been dark red"

2021-10-23T05:35:09.801Z


Agatharied - If there were an internal traffic light at the hospital in Agatharied, it would be dark red. There is definitely cause for concern - but no one to panic.


Agatharied - If there were an internal traffic light at the hospital in Agatharied, it would be dark red.

There is definitely cause for concern - but no one to panic.

In parallel to the 7-day incidence in the Miesbach district, which rose again on Friday (plus 18 to 340), the number of corona patients at the Agatharied hospital has also skyrocketed.

As it is said on request, there were eight cases at the handover on Wednesday at 8 a.m., two hours later already twelve, and on Friday noon a total of 14 corona patients were in the hospital, two of them in the intensive care unit and ventilated.

Bed shortages and a very busy workforce

The latter was one less than the day before.

However, according to the intensive care register (as of 1 p.m.), there were no more intensive care beds available.

Melanie Speicher, Head of Corporate Communications at the hospital, therefore chooses strong words with regard to the situation: "If you look at our bed shortages and the resulting workforce, our internal traffic light is dark red."

Most of the Covid19 patients are not vaccinated

The calculation is simple: the more corona infections there are in the region as a whole, the higher the probability of courses that require hospitalization. The proportion of more serious diseases is lower in a vaccinated population, but it is well known that there are still a good number of unvaccinated people, and according to Speicher, they make up a large part of corona patients. Vaccinated persons would be treated as inpatients “only occasionally”; and "among the seriously ill corona patients there are almost no vaccinated". If so, it would mostly be people of old age and with many previous illnesses. In this group of people, the immune response to a vaccination would often be worse. Thus, the defense situation is reduced.

Furthermore, a ward for corona patients is blocked.

Beds that are missing elsewhere.

The location determines the effort required by the station.

Speicher: "As with the previous waves, we are guided by the patient volume when it comes to the available capacities."

Clinic is working to capacity

As Sven Steppat from the Nursing Directorate specifies, the said Covid ward has 18 beds. But that does not mean that this is the end of the flagpole. Because the hospitals are obliged to maintain the care of Covid and emergency patients. If necessary, another station must be cleared. This is then at the expense of other patients, especially those who have planned but postponable operations. But Steppat also confirms that Agatharied is working at the limit of capacity. In general, this is 85 percent bed occupancy. "We have been over it for many days, sometimes even over 90 percent." The fact that not all 350 planned beds in the clinic can be occupied is due to the fact that discharges,New admissions and transfers take place and not every bed can be occupied by any patient.

Last but not least, the staff is a limiting factor.

Corona patients require "additional organizational and personnel effort due to the isolation measures," said Speicher.

It starts with putting on and taking off protective equipment and does not end with discussions about wearing masks.

The situation at other hospitals in the emergency rescue association is hardly better

Meanwhile, the clinics in the other high-incidence areas in southeast Upper Bavaria are hardly doing any better.

Agatharied belongs to the same rescue association as the Romed-Kliniken Rosenheim, the Schönkliniken in Bad Aibling and Vogtareuth.

Again and again you would ask each other about free capacities, says Steppat.

Occasionally, patients are also being transferred.

Speicher: "You help each other out."

The spokeswoman expects a "definite upward trend"

The company spokeswoman describes the overall situation as follows: “We are observing an extremely dynamic situation with a definite upward trend.” A dark red glowing corona traffic light in Agatharied alone does not mean anything.

Renewed restrictions depend on the Bavaria-wide traffic light, which is known to continue to glow green.

Source: merkur

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