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Due to the strong increase in the burden on intensive care units in Germany in the corona pandemic, experts are sounding the alarm.
"Dear decision-makers, how high should the numbers rise before you want to react ???", wrote the scientific director of the Divi intensive care register, Christian Karagiannidis, on Twitter.
Cities like Bonn, Bremen and Cologne would hardly have free beds for the next heart attack, traffic accident or Covid 19 patients.
The Charité virologist Christian Drosten forwarded the intensive care doctor's text to his more than 700,000 followers on Thursday on Twitter with the comment “This is an emergency call”.
Since mid-March, the number of intensive care patients with Covid-19 has risen again nationwide.
There are currently more than 4,400, at the beginning of the year it was just under 5,800.
"If this continues, we will unfortunately soon have over 5000 Covid-19 patients," said former Divi President Uwe Janssens on Wednesday the RTL / ntv broadcasters.
From a number of 5000 to 6000 intensive care patients, it could be that some hospitals would have to switch back to emergency operation.
Berlin's Charité University Hospital announced on Thursday that it would reduce the number of planned interventions again from next week.
The main bottleneck in supply is the availability of nursing staff.
The German Interdisciplinary Association for Intensive Care and Emergency Medicine (Divi), which publishes the occupancy figures daily, has been warning for many weeks of the consequences of the high number of corona infections and recently called for a hard lockdown.
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