Thursday, November 25, 2021
Situation is “very, very serious”
Ministers call for surgery to be postponed nationwide
Intensive care units are not only reaching their capacity limits in Bavaria, Saxony and Thuringia. All health ministers from the federal government to the federal states are sounding the alarm. You want to postpone predictable operations throughout Germany.
In view of the worsening corona situation in large parts of Germany, planned operations are to be postponed nationwide according to the will of the health ministers of the federal government and the states. This is already the case in many federal states. The chairman of the conference of health ministers, Bavaria’s head of department Klaus Holetschek, reported after a switching conference that the states had agreed on this.
It also needs flat rates for the clinics if they keep intensive care beds and clinic staff free for Covid 19 patients. “It is very clear to all of us that it is very, very serious,” said Holetschek after the deliberations. There is great solidarity between all federal states, emphasized the CSU politician. Holetschek thanked the countries that are now accepting patients from other parts of the country as part of the so-called clover leaf concept. Specifically, relocations from Bavaria, Saxony and Thuringia are planned.
However, Holetschek warned that the dramatic corona development could spread through all of Germany in the coming weeks. “The growth of the fourth wave can be felt nationwide.” Measures must therefore be taken quickly to reduce the corona numbers. According to participants in the switch, the acting Federal Health Minister Jens Spahn also made it clear that the decisive factor now is that the wave must be broken.