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Altenburg (dpa / th) - The Altenburger Land Clinic has completely stopped all plannable treatments and operations due to the increasing number of corona patients.
The municipal hospital has been working in emergency mode since Thursday, as it announced on its website.
In addition to an increasing number of corona patients, very high illness-related absenteeism among nursing staff are the reason for this step, explained the medical director Jörg Berrouschot.
In addition, employees would be in corona quarantine.
The clinic spoke of a "personnel emergency".
Emergencies would continue to be dealt with.
The hospital in East Thuringia is one of the main clinics for Covid-19 patients in Thuringia.
The area for outpatient surgery was closed to create more capacity for intensive care medicine.
Surgical wards were also closed or merged.
A complete ward level is now available for the more easily ill corona patients, it said.
There are no changes in obstetrics.
After the Hildburghausen district, Altenburger Land is the district in Thuringia most affected by the pandemic.
On Thursday, the number of newly infected people within seven days was just under 262 per 100,000 inhabitants.
41 corona patients are currently being treated as inpatients in the 480-bed house, four of them in intensive care.
On the Thursday of the previous week there were 26. 37 employees are in quarantine due to Corona.
In view of the situation, the clinic urgently appealed to the people in the district to adhere to the rules to contain the pandemic.
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