Green health expert Janosch Dahmen criticized the federal government's corona management and called for the deployment of a federal-state crisis team.
Berlin - Due to the sharp increase in corona infections across Germany, some hospitals have already complained that their intensive care units are overloaded and they have to move patients.
Green health expert Janosch Dahmen therefore demanded that a federal-state crisis team should prepare the comprehensive transfer of patients to other clinics.
Corona policy: Greens politicians expressly warn
"As early as next week, numerous intensive care units will no longer be able to accept new patients," warned the Green politician. In the south and east of the country, the supply capacities will not be sufficient for the foreseeable future. "Since we know that around 0.7 percent of all newly infected people will end up in the intensive care unit, we can already reliably predict the need for intensive care beds for the next ten days." will. "This can only be done centrally and not by unloading it on shoulders that are already overloaded." Such a federal-state crisis team should have existed since the beginning of the corona pandemic, according to the health expert.
At the beginning there must be the question of how many intensive care beds would already be needed in the foreseeable future - and where in Germany there is still a correspondingly large number of free beds.
"In overcrowded clinics it must now be determined which patients are medically eligible for a transfer," said Dahmen.
In addition, patient data would have to be transmitted to the receiving clinics.
Health expert from the Greens criticizes the federal government's corona policy: "Reacting late"
The Green expert criticized the hospitalization rate chosen by the federal and state governments. It is unsuitable as a central benchmark for the current crisis management: “This indicator does not allow early action, only late reaction.” In the chain of events after an infection, hospital admission is the last factor. In addition, it has been shown that the hospitalization rate had to be constantly corrected retrospectively due to late registrations. The current daily value is clearly too low and accordingly very unreliable. The seven-day incidence and the availability and occupancy of intensive care beds therefore continue to make the most sense as headline indicators.
The doctor said it was incomprehensible that states such as the Union-led Saxony-Anhalt were still not implementing measures such as 2G plus (additionally with test) and consequent contact restrictions that were required by the federal-state group.
(dpa / sf)
