This was announced by a spokesman for the Bundeswehr medical service on Monday upon request in Koblenz. In the morning, a special Bundeswehr aircraft flew to Bucharest to fly out a first group of six seriously ill people. The portal “The Pioneer” first reported on the campaign.
Sick people have to be ventilated
Around 20 medical personnel from the Bundeswehr were on board the first aircraft. On Tuesday, the Romanian Air Force should then bring six more patients to Germany. Another flight of the Bundeswehr special aircraft AirMedEvac is planned for Wednesday, it said. A total of 18 sick people from Romanians should be admitted to German clinics for further treatment by Wednesday evening.
No further information was initially available on the state of health. According to the Bundeswehr, all those who are escaped require intensive medical treatment. According to “The Pioneer”, all patients in the first group must be ventilated.
The North Rhine-Westphalian state government announced that four of these people should be brought to the state’s hospitals in Bochum, Krefeld and Bergisch Gladbach, the other two to the Bundeswehr hospital in Koblenz. “North Rhine-Westphalia stands in solidarity with its European friends,” said the North Rhine-Westphalian Prime Minister Hendrik Wüst (CDU).
Romania’s health system is massively overwhelmed
According to “The Pioneer”, the Romanian government originally requested intensive medical teams from Germany to deal with the rapidly worsening situation on site. However, the Bundeswehr was unable to comply with this request.
The spokesman for the medical service pointed out that the Bundeswehr was acting on an order from the federal government. The Ministry of Defense also said that a Bundeswehr reconnaissance team had been sent to Bucharest last week. The aim of the campaign is “to relieve the Romanian health system by taking over intensive care, invasively ventilated patients with CoViD-19”.
According to “The Pioneer”, the German government of Romania promised to deliver 12,720 doses of the antibody drug casirivimab / imdevimab last week. The country’s health system is currently massively overwhelmed. The incidence value had risen in the past few days to more than 1000 new cases in 14 days per 100,000 inhabitants, only just under a third of Romania’s population is fully vaccinated.