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Triage threatens in Munich: clinics are preparing a drastic step - Corona crisis plan declared

2021-11-23T22:05:08.523Z


The corona situation in Bavaria and Munich is dramatic. The number of new infections continues to rise, the intensive care beds are becoming fewer. Therefore, action is now taking place in Munich.


The corona situation in Bavaria and Munich is dramatic.

The number of new infections continues to rise, the intensive care beds are becoming fewer.

Therefore, action is now taking place in Munich.

Munich - Because the situation in Munich's intensive care units continues to worsen due to the tense Corona situation, the state capital's clinics are preparing patient transfers to hospitals outside Upper Bavaria.

This is to create space for new, seriously ill Covid patients.

In order to create the logistical prerequisites, the national clover leaf crisis plan has been activated.

If necessary, it also provides for nationwide patient transfers.

Corona: Munich clinics are preparing a drastic step - crisis plan announced

According to

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information, intensive care physicians in Munich are already specifically examining which patients are eligible.

In focus: Ventilated corona patients in a stable condition.

They should be brought to places with free intensive care beds by Sanka or airplanes.

The first transports could take place on the weekend.

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Corona in Munich: Crisis plan activated - city threatens triage

The background: There is also a threat of triage in Munich.

Doctors have to decide which patients can still be treated.

“We have to pull out all the stops to avoid this situation.

Triage should only be the very last resort in a health system as powerful as the German one, ”said Munich hospital coordinators Viktoria Bogner-Flatz and Dominik Hinzmann of the newspaper.

In order to fight against the current corona wave, Markus Söder has now tightened the rules again.

Source: merkur

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