Corona: Clinics in Weilheim-Schongau should also postpone treatments

Created: 01/16/2022, 02:00 p.m

By: Andreas Baer

The Klinikum Penzberg has also received the specification from the government of Upper Bavaria.

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Region – Corona plan by the government of Upper Bavaria: The clinics should continue to postpone inpatient treatment – ​​also in Weilheim-Schongau.

In view of the continuing tense situation, the government of Upper Bavaria has obliged 76 Upper Bavarian clinics to continue to refrain from all inpatient treatments that can be postponed from a medical point of view.

In the Oberland, this affects the Penzberg Clinic, the Weilheim and Schongau Hospitals, the Asklepios City Clinic in Bad Tölz, the Wolfratshausen District Clinic, the Garmisch-Partenkirchen Clinic and the Murnau Accident Clinic.

Now valid until January 31st

This order had already been made in November 2021 and was limited to Monday (January 17).

The requirements have now been extended up to and including Monday, January 31st.

They apply to both 57 Covid-19 hospitals and 19 clinics that had previously treated Covid-19 patients only to a limited extent or not at all.

According to press spokesman Wolfgang Rupp, the primary goal remains to ensure inpatient capacities for the care of all emergency and intensive care patients.

"Occupancy pressure" in intensive care beds

The orders are justified with a still high “occupancy pressure for intensive care beds” – these are currently around 90 percent occupied in Upper Bavaria.

At the same time, the number of infections would increase significantly again, especially due to the omicron variant, according to the district government.

Medically urgent operations such as time-critical heart or tumor operations are still not covered by the order.

"The treating physicians decide on the medical urgency," said the government of Upper Bavaria.