The NRW state government wants to postpone planned operations in the NRW hospitals for the admission of corona patients from other federal states.
The cabinet wanted to adopt a corresponding regulation in a special session on Friday morning, as the State Chancellery announced.
According to information from the German Press Agency, a special aircraft of the Luftwaffe is to be launched on Friday at 14.
Düsseldorf - Landing at the Bavarian airport Memmingen at midnight and seriously ill people flying to Münster-Osnabrück in North Rhine-Westphalia.
The arrival of the machine was planned for the early evening.
According to dpa information, a necessary change to the Infection Protection and Authorization Act is to be voted on in the NRW state parliament on Friday so that the ordinance can come into force.
So far, the law does not provide a legal basis for admitting patients from outside.
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For us as North Rhine-Westphalia it goes without saying that we will also show solidarity with other federal states, ”said the Deputy Prime Minister of North Rhine-Westphalia Joachim Stamp (FDP) in the morning.
The hospitals should, where it is medically justifiable, "postpone postponed treatments in whole or in part" in order to care for Covid-19 patients.
This means that patients from hospitals in other “regions, federal states and states” should also be able to be cared for, according to the draft ordinance.
As part of the so-called cloverleaf system, Covid 19 patients should be able to be distributed nationwide if hospitals are threatened with collapse in individual regions.
In NRW, according to state figures from Friday, 2595 corona patients are being treated in the hospital, 334 of them in intensive care units with ventilation.
362 intensive care beds with ventilation for very severe cases are currently still available in North Rhine-Westphalia.
dpa