Corona wave: No nationwide OP postponements in clinics

Despite the wave of flu and colds, the Bavarian hospitals are currently unlikely to experience a repeat of the pre-Christmas emergency like in December 2021.

Corona wave: No nationwide OP postponements in clinics

Despite the wave of flu and colds, the Bavarian hospitals are currently unlikely to experience a repeat of the pre-Christmas emergency like in December 2021. According to the Bavarian Hospital Society, there is still a lack of staff, but there is a general postponement of planned operations - as recently announced by the Berlin Charité - does not exist in Bavarian clinics. "So far we have not had any such alarms," ​​said a spokesman for the Bavarian Hospital Society.

At the end of 2021, the situation in Bavaria's hospitals was so tense at the height of the Corona wave with the Delta variant that Covid 19 intensive care patients were evacuated from Bavaria to other federal states. At times, physicians and the hospital community feared the collapse of regulated intensive care in Bavaria.

According to the information, corona infections no longer play a major role, but the current wave of flu and colds is also affecting hospital staff. "We have a lot of sickness-related staff absences, and the general shortage of skilled workers also plays a role," said a spokeswoman for the Nuremberg Clinic. "We also have many acute emergencies."

So far, there has not been a general cancellation of operations that cannot be postponed at the Nuremberg Clinic. According to the spokeswoman, however, such elective interventions have to be postponed again and again "because we have a large number of acute emergencies and urgent surgeries, for example tumor surgeries". An elective procedure is an operation that can be planned, a well-known example is the insertion of an artificial hip joint.

The number of corona infections continues to decline, said the spokeswoman for the Nuremberg clinic. But there are now significantly more patients with influenza - the real flu - or RS viruses. "The situation therefore remains tense due to staff absences due to illness."

The situation in the hospitals at Munich's Ludwig Maximilian University seems to be relatively unproblematic. There are currently "no relevant impairments in the elective care of patients," said a spokeswoman. "Overall, there is currently an increase in respiratory infections among patients and employees. However, the situation cannot be said to be critical."

Weekly report of the RKI from 14.12.

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