More and more corona patients end up in the Fürstenfeldbruck district clinic.
The employees are exhausted.
And a look at the current infection numbers shows: the worst is still to come.
Fürstenfeldbruck
- 20 Covid patients were in the district clinic on Wednesday, four had to be ventilated.
"The situation is much more dramatic than in the previous waves."
Florian Weis and he must know.
He is the head of the intensive care unit at the district clinic.
He and his team are fighting the virus on the front lines.
But they can no longer win the fight alone.
That is why the crisis team was reactivated and an accident surgery station was closed, explains clinic boss Alfons Groitl.
Operations that can be planned must wait
The employees are needed in the isolation ward.
This also means that predictable treatments and operations have to wait.
The government of Upper Bavaria has ordered this for all Covid 19 focus hospitals in the district.
The district clinic is one of them.
Knee or hip operations, for example, are affected by the measure.
Time-critical heart or tumor operations will continue to be performed.
Patients mostly unvaccinated
It's a déjà vu that the clinic and its staff would have liked to have done without - and one that could have been avoided.
Because the corona patients are mostly unvaccinated.
And because they are younger on average, they stay longer, explains Groitl.
At the moment they are treating a corona patient in Bruck who has been in the clinic for 46 days - and thus ties up the capacities of doctors and nurses.
The strength of the medical staff continues to decline.
"Many employees are exhausted from the duration of the pandemic and the recurring additional stress caused by the Covid patients who have to be isolated," says Dr.
Florian Weis.
The head of the intensive care unit knows of another problem that nibbles on the staff ceiling: Many employees are single mothers.
If the child has to be quarantined, the mother is often absent from the clinic.
The increase in the number of cases is extreme
When looking to the future, hospital managers do not have any good hopes.
"The increase in the number of cases is extreme and there is no flattening of the curve in sight," says Dr.
Wis.
Those numbers would be reflected in the clinic seven to ten days later.
He speaks of a "frightening perspective".
Groitl reports on 23 corona patients from the particularly affected south-east of Bavaria who had to be brought to the north of the Free State. "In the past few months, Fürstenfeldbruck has taken on a few patients from other clinics if we had the capacity," explains Dr. Wis. “We haven't had to move any Covid patients yet.” “I hope it doesn't come to that,” says Groitl. According to Weis, transfers to distant Bavarian hospitals have already taken place from other hospitals belonging to the Bruck, Dachau, Starnberg, Landsberg rescue association.
As the district office also reports, the district clinic has again tightened its visiting rules.
Now 2Gplus applies.
This means that only vaccinated or recovered people have access.
Evidence and an updated daily negative antigen rapid test must be presented during the visit.