A storm is coming.
The specialist clinics in the Würmtal also notice this.
Operations are not yet postponed.
How much longer does that last?
Würmtal
- Visitors are no longer allowed to enter the clinics in the Würmtal.
The Pasinger Helios-Klinikum München West is the exception: 2Gplus applies here.
Like the visitors, the patients feel the consequences of the increasing number of corona infections more in some places than elsewhere.
Dr.
Marco Galle, chief anesthesiologist at the Urological Clinic in Planegg, notes: "We are currently receiving more inquiries from patients with tumor diseases who are no longer operated on in other hospitals."
The Graefelfinger Wolfart Clinic continues to operate normally.
Managing Director Tilman Götzner assures: "If an 80-year-old needs a hip, he'll get it right now." But "That can change every day, I'm afraid".
Götzner is convinced: "It's the calm before the storm."
Clinics must transfer staff to other facilities
In Pasing, the situation in the intensive care unit is tense. Nine Covid patients were looked after there yesterday afternoon. 15 more with Covid-19 are being treated in the clinic. "As a corona clinic, the clinic is obliged to reserve free intensive care capacities for patients with Covid-19 as well as for emergencies and to organize postponed treatments from a medical point of view," explains spokesman Marten Deseyve. The urological clinic in Planegg currently has four beds available for Covid patients. As in Graefelfing, nobody is currently being treated for Corona. According to Götzner, however, politicians are discussing the extent to which specialist clinics should be involved in the care of Covid patients. He assumes that his clinic will have to transfer staff to other facilities or take in Covid patients.However, he does not have a real intensive care unit available. The Planegg colleagues don't have any either.
There is a lack of staff for the intensive care unit
The Asklepios specialist clinics in Gauting have one. And we can imagine that staff from other clinics will help out, according to spokeswoman Beatriz Parente Matschke. Because: "We have more places in the intensive care unit than we can currently operate." 36 places would be technically possible. “In terms of personnel, it looks very different.” Currently only 20 beds are available, seven of them for Covid patients, and they are also occupied. The clinic has therefore already taken measures to increase the number of beds. "With cuts in other areas, we could go up to 15 Covid beds," the spokeswoman calculates. “With lung cancer, we can't just postpone therapy for a month.” But most of the time, people come to the sleep laboratory at the Gautinger Clinic for checks. “You can easily postpone it for a month.That's why we decided to shut down this area first. ”The sleep laboratory is now closed. 13 employees from there are supposed to help out with the care so that others can support the intensive care unit. "We are currently in the process of familiarizing ourselves with the situation and reallocating it." And: "We are thinking about which areas we can still shovel free." can not tear off.which areas we can still shovel. ”Because the inquiries from clinics that want to relocate patients to Gauting so that they can deal with emergencies again do not stop.which areas we can still shovel. ”Because the inquiries from clinics that want to relocate patients to Gauting so that they can deal with emergencies again do not stop.
