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Erfurt / Jena (dpa / th) - In order to be able to treat the increasing number of Covid-19 patients, hospitals in Thuringia are again reducing less urgent, predictable operations.

At the Jena University Hospital alone, around 10 to 15 percent fewer operations are carried out in November than in November 2019, as a clinic spokeswoman said on request.

Medically necessary operations would continue to be performed.

According to a spokeswoman, postponable operations are being reduced again in favor of the care of corona patients at the Bad Berka Central Clinic (Weimarer Land district).

Both houses are among the main clinics for the treatment of Covid-19 patients in Thuringia.

In the first phase of the corona pandemic, almost all Thuringian hospitals reserved beds for Covid-19 patients and postponed operations that could be planned for them.

At the Jena Clinic, for example, the doctors were only at the operating table for around 50 operations a day in April.

Usually it's 80 a day.

The clinics affected received financial compensation, so-called free lump sums.

According to the state hospital company, these have not been paid since October.

There is no new obligation for clinics to keep beds free for Covid 19 patients, said the company's managing director, Rainer Poniewaß.

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"But the more intensive care patients come, the more staff are needed for their care."

For this, the clinics would also have to withdraw staff from other wards.

This could mean that operations would have to be reduced.

Quarantine cases among staff or their families also play a role.

Because employees have to look after their quarantined children, employees are currently unplanned, according to the university hospital.

According to the German Interdisciplinary Association for Intensive Care and Emergency Medicine (DIVI), 27 patients suffering from Covid-19 were ventilated in hospitals in Thuringia on Monday.

A total of 72 were treated in intensive care.

According to the DIVI information, 595 intensive care beds in Thuringia were occupied on Monday, 261 of the currently operable intensive care beds were still free.

There is also an emergency reserve of 431 intensive care beds, which can be additionally set up within seven days.

DIVI intensive register