Austria’s largest hospital, the Vienna General Hospital, has to limit its surgical program to emergencies and only “absolutely urgent cases”. The reason is “increasingly pandemic-related staff shortages in all professional groups,” quotes “ZiB 2” from a corresponding letter. The health association has confirmed the restrictions.
The health association is confident that the situation will ease in the coming week and refers to the large number of guest patients from outside Vienna who need to be cared for. The AKH hopes to be able to lift the restrictions before Easter. High number of guest patients The high number of guest patients is identified as one of the problems. As announced by the health association on Twitter, 700 non-Covid patients from other federal states are currently being treated in Vienna, 323 of them are in the AHK. There are also seven corona patients in the hospital from other federal states, and there are 31 in the federal capital in total. This, in connection with the high number of sick leave, means that the situation at the AKH is also very tense. Operations in the normal range have been postponed for months. The health association has been warning of these problems for a long time. The pandemic is not over and the rapid increase in the number of infections is also fueling the situation. Over 116,000 active corona cases in Vienna The federal capital currently has 116,474 active corona cases (as of Friday afternoon). The number of deaths related to the virus is 3207. Nine people have died recently. Currently, 750,805 positive tests have been confirmed in Vienna since the beginning of the pandemic. 631,124 people have recovered. Vienna does not implement shortened quarantine Meanwhile, the federal capital will not take advantage of the shortened quarantine option. One sticks to the variant that infected people can test themselves from the fifth day of isolation. This was announced by a spokesman for City Councilor for Health Peter Hacker (SPÖ) on Friday. As a result, the rule that stipulates release from quarantine from the fifth day without a test, but with traffic restrictions – albeit with professional practice under certain conditions – is not used in Vienna. provides. After a legal review, this variant was classified in the town hall as a “pure recommendation” by the federal government and not as a mandatory requirement. It was determined that the federal document mentioned free testing as an equivalent alternative. The city’s crisis team has now decided on this. For this purpose, aspects of infection epidemiology and data on free testing are brought up.
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