Dramatic appeal from Bavarian corona hotspot: Doctors rage against government - "collective political failure"

In the Rottal-Inn district, the corona numbers are extremely high.

In the clinics, there is increasing dissatisfaction with the failure of politics in the fight against pandemics.

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- The Corona * incidence in Bavaria has fallen slightly for the first time in weeks. At 644.3 (RKI, as of November 24, 3:12 a.m.), it is still well above the national average - and much too high to protect the hospitals from overload. Doctors at the Rottal-Inn clinics in Eggenfelden in Lower Bavaria no longer see their corona intensive care unit far from collapse. "We are only at the beginning of the fourth wave," said chairman Bernd Hirtreiter. He assumes that the number of corona patients will double within the next two to four weeks and has sharp criticism of the corona policy.

The ten intensive care beds in the clinic are occupied.

The resources in other hospitals are similarly tight.

"That worries us very much." Almost two weeks ago, numerous patients were brought to other clinics in a major relocation campaign, reported Hirtreiter.

“That helped us a lot.

Otherwise we would have already flooded. "

Corona in Bavaria: Large patient relocation campaign planned - clinicians in Lower Bavaria angry

The Rottal-Inn district is one of the corona hotspots in Bavaria.

According to the Robert Koch Institute *, the incidence * on Wednesday was 1274.2.

Due to the new measures that come into force in Bavaria today, the district is going into a new lockdown * for an initial period of three weeks.

"This is a collective failure of politics," said Hirtreiter.

In the summer, this focused too much on the election campaign instead of fighting pandemics and filling football stadiums instead of offering people a booster vaccination in good time.

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Dramatic corona numbers in Bavaria: Doctors criticize policy failure - nursing staff at the limit

The medical director Klaus Kienle refers to the expected two high points of the fourth wave: mid-December and early February. The clinics now lacked specific announcements, he criticizes. "What is the worst-case scenario? Who is helping out? How

is the Bundeswehr involved? ”The nursing staff are at their limit, explain Kienle and Hirtreiter. Many are exhausted and also angry about the low willingness to vaccinate in the population and the resulting large number of unvaccinated corona patients in the intensive care units.

In view of the worsening corona situation in the clinics, Bavaria is now preparing to transport a larger number

of intensive care patients to other federal states.

For the Free State, the so-called cloverleaf concept for the

strategic transfer of intensive care patients within Germany

has now been

activated, as the German interdisciplinary Association for

Intensive and Emergency Medicine (DIVI) announced on Wednesday night.

Corona in Bavaria: Discussion with relatives and unwilling corona deniers

Relatives who stand in the way of the transfer of a patient are often problematic for the clinics.

You don't have time to call relatives for 30 minutes for each relocation, says Kienle.

Corona deniers, on the other hand, are rarely a problem.

But if someone does not want to be helped, let them go.

An infected corona denier left the hospital against the express request of the doctors, said Kienle.

He died shortly afterwards at home from the consequences of Covid disease.