Thirteen million euros for nothing?
Last spring, in exactly fifty-five days, the German capital acquired a reserve hospital, with 488 additional beds.
Installed in a hall of the exhibition center, it would have allowed to intubate up to 111 patients;
300 caregivers from various Berlin hospitals were specially trained and stood ready for months to switch to the emergency structure, if the epidemic required it.
But Berlin never needed to activate this army in a white coat.
Dormant, the
coronaklinik
should be dismantled no later than May.
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For the moment, Germany has never known saturation of its hospital structures.
At the start of the epidemic, the German hospital society estimated the number of intensive care beds at 28,000, including 22,000 with equipment for oxygenating patients.
High capacities, which cannot however be directly compared to the 5,400 resuscitation beds available in France
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