The Freising Clinic has to switch to disaster mode due to the enormous number of patients.
The situation is worse than last winter.
Freising
- What the management of the Freising Clinic absolutely wanted to avoid is now happening: Due to the massive increase in Covid patients, the hospital has to switch to crisis mode again. This is bad news, especially for all patients who would have been undergoing surgery. As clinic spokesman Sascha Alexander informed the FT, all hospital operations must be completely cut back. “We are fully back in disaster mode,” he told the FT. The situation is much more dramatic than last winter lockdown. After all: As the hospital's Corona officer emphasized, there is no lack of technical equipment compared to the first lockdown in spring 2020. “We have the necessary ventilation machines. But there is a lack of staff to operate additional intensive care beds. "
All interventions that can be planned must be postponed
That means: Operations in other departments must be reduced significantly in order to attract staff who can take care of other corona patients.
"The Freising Clinic is doing everything in its power to gradually organize staff and bed capacities in favor of the intensive care unit in a timely manner," emphasizes Alexander.
"From Monday we will postpone all planned interventions and only operate our operating theaters for emergencies and urgent interventions in order to gain human resources."
How exactly the organizational restructuring in the hospital is going, Alexander could not say on Friday.
After all: There is still no talk of the closure of entire departments, as had to be done in spring 2020 at the behest of the top.
The clinic refrains from a ban on visits.
At the moment, relatives of patients can come to the hospital in compliance with the 2G rule and with an FFP2 mask.
The unvaccinated patients slow down the clinic completely
"Of course we did not want the current developments - with regard to other patients with serious illnesses," emphasized the medical director of the clinic, Dr.
Markus Neumaier.
"Because if we cannot treat them now, we will soon be pushing a huge wave of patients with postponed ailments - regardless of whether it is heart attack, stroke or cancer patients." The need to catch up is already huge.
"We would have liked to work it off now, but the unvaccinated corona patients who are in the intensive care unit are now completely slowing us down."
Patients from Freising had to be transferred to South Tyrol
A type of triage was therefore already in place at the hospital beforehand.
As the Corona officer Dr.
Christian Fiedler announced that three patients who actually needed an intensive care bed had to be accommodated in the normal ward.
Because the intensive care unit was already full at this point, they picked up the phone.
After a long phone call, intensive care beds could be organized in other hospitals for at least two patients - in South Tyrol.
(By the way: Everything from the region is now also available in our regular Freising newsletter.)
The clinic's corona crisis team is now meeting regularly and will continue to evaluate the current developments in the coming days, Alexander said.
“If necessary, we will take further measures at short notice.” There is a constant exchange with the disaster control management group based at the district office.