Rescue workers in the Nuremberg area complain of increasing stress - "The situation is very tense"

Hospitals suffer from corona pollution.

This is passed on to rescue workers who have to travel long distances to accommodate patients.

Nuremberg - The fact that the hospitals are reaching their limits in terms of beds and staff is also reflected in the rescue services.

The helpers are reaching the limit of their resilience, patients sometimes have to accept significantly longer journeys in the ambulance until they reach a clinic that accepts them.

This is reported by

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Corona situation in the Nuremberg area: Rescue workers complain of increasing pollution

The communication between emergency doctors and rescue services in the Nuremberg * area actually works well.

You are networked via the Ivena Internet portal.

This shows in real time which hospitals in the metropolitan area still have capacities.

If a clinic lights up red, it is full and it is signing off.

The ambulance * is directed to a neighboring hospital.

The problem: At the moment, more and more clinics are logging out because they no longer have any capacity.

“The situation is very tense.

We are increasingly having problems accommodating the patients, ”says Thomas Löhr, deputy ILS manager,

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Nuremberg rescue workers: Patients have to be transported long and far 

Patients from Nuremberg would therefore have to be transported to Altdorf, Sulzbach-Rosenberg, Neustadt / Aisch or Dinkelsbühl because clinics in Nuremberg, Fürth * and Erlangen are tight.

But what happens to people who have suffered life-threatening heart attacks, strokes or cerebral haemorrhage, for example?

"If clinics impose a ban on admission, we can have them made compulsory - a clinic can deregister as it wants if a patient urgently needs help," says Philipp Tschugg, head of the watch at the Nuremberg Johannitern, the online portal.

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Agreements take longer and cause delays 

The agreements between the ILS and the clinic about where the patient can be admitted also take longer.

If a rescue team from Nuremberg then drives the long way into the surrounding area, this team and its ambulance are bound and are missing in the city.

This in turn creates an additional burden on the remaining rescue workers in the city.

There are no breaks and more and more overtime is incurred, explains Tschugg

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Slipping on the special Corona * protective equipment also costs time.

The ambulance must also be thoroughly disinfected after it has been transported.

There are easily 20 minutes for each vehicle hygiene. 

Another problem: The rescue workers are called more and more often for emergencies, which afterwards turn out to be trivial.

This annoys the deputy rescue service manager of the Arbeiter-Samariter-Bund Nürnberg (ASB) Bernhard Strobl and his colleague Philipp Tschugg from the Johannitern: "The threshold for dialing the emergency call keeps falling," criticized Strobl.

"It is also frustrating when we patients with comparatively less severe ailments, such as a head injury, have to drive several kilometers into the surrounding area," Tschugg is

quoted

from

as saying.