Greek doctors working in Germany describe the situation as nightmarish. Now, the hospitals of Bavaria have even reached a step before the doctors start sorting patients who will be treated in intensive care …
Even Germany, the country with 40,000 intensive care units, is succumbing to the new wave of coronavirus. The state of Bavaria began sending patients to other countries to withstand the pressure.
“They are starting to fill up more and more in southern Germany, patients are being transported to Austria, Italy but not that there are no beds at all, there are some but there is almost an alarm that they can be filled completely,” he told the pulmonologist in Munich, Myrsini Kamaterou-Munker.
More than 1,700 patients with coronary artery disease are being treated in intensive care units and hospitals have taken a step towards screening patients.
“We have come to the point, for example, that we neurologists as intensivists who need to treat strokes have trouble treating them and thinking about whether to let patients from farther away from small hospitals come or not,” he said. Neuroenticologist in Munich, Konstantinos Dimitriadis.
In Germany, too, the vast majority of patients in the intensive care unit are unvaccinated and the tightening of measures is just around the corner.
“More than 90% are unvaccinated in the intensive care unit. The unvaccinated will be excluded from many possibilities, this is much discussed, even on trams and buses, points out the Myrsini Kamaterou- Munker.
“Lockdown is being discussed for the unvaccinated as it was done in Austria, compulsory vaccination is being discussed at least in professional groups. “Whatever measures they take now we will see their results in 3-4 weeks, after that we in the intensive care unit are very anxious about how the next weeks will develop and we are constantly seeing the pressure increase and increase”, says the Konstantinos Dimitriadis.
But what happened and the country with the most ICUs in Europe reached such a point?
“Everything was left very loose, all the austerity measures were abolished, the mask on the streets”, points out Ms. Myrsini Kamaterou-Munker, to whom Mr. Dimitriadis adds: “I think that the same thing happened in most of its countries. “Europe, the 4th wave was underestimated and the people who could not be persuaded to be vaccinated is the main problem.”
With this situation, Germany postpones one after the other the festive events for Christmas, before it is too late ….
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