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Chairman of the World Medical Association Montgomery (archive picture): Hospitals are "caught up with infections that took place four weeks ago"
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Germany still has the third corona wave under control.
In view of the increasing number of patients in many intensive care units, the chairman of the World Medical Association warns that the situation will worsen: "We are now being caught up in the clinics by the infections that took place four weeks ago," said Frank Ulrich Montgomery of the "Passauer Neue Presse".
The triage will "definitely" be in the room again.
Triage means that medical professionals have to decide who to give preferential treatment due to scarce resources.
“We were very grateful that it wasn't needed in the first two waves.
It is conceivable that there will be situations in which it is used. ”It is therefore right that the clinics prepare for a rush, said Montgomery.
Europe's largest university clinic, the Berlin Charité, had announced that it would employ more employees in Covid-19 areas again in the coming week and reduce plannable interventions.
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