Intensive care for corona patients costs CHF 100,000 in Basel

The hospitals have their hands full to care for seriously ill corona patients. At the same time, the intensive care units are at the limit. The bottleneck is always the staff, since a lot more nurses are needed. And that costs.

As the «Basler Zeitung» now reports, these costs even increased in the fourth wave. The Basel-Stadt health department has calculated that the treatment of intensive care patients in the first waves of the pandemic resulted in costs of around CHF 87,000 on average. But the Basel University Hospital has come to different numbers: In the current fourth wave, a corona patient in intensive care costs an average of 100,000 francs.