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Despite the tense corona situation, there is still capacity in the intensive care units in Germany.

Nationwide relocations are possible, said the Association of German Intensive Care Doctors and the Robert Koch Institute (RKI) on Wednesday.

The health system is heavily burdened.

"We are currently NOT at the point of having to prioritize patients." Previously, a message from Saxony that not all patients could have been treated in a clinic caused a sensation.

"I would like to make it very clear that there are currently free intensive care beds in Saxony and that patients are distributed accordingly via the hospital control centers," said the coordinator for the distribution of Covid 19 patients in Saxony and senior physician at the Dresden University Hospital, Christian Kleber .

"To date, all inquiries regarding an intensive care bed to the hospital control centers have been successfully processed and assigned."

The German Interdisciplinary Association for Intensive and Emergency Medicine (Divi) and the responsible specialist group at the RKI announced that patients could be moved within Germany.

Plans had been in place for weeks in the event of possible overloading of individual regions.

In the so-called clover leaf concept, Germany was divided into five regions in order to transfer patients within them.

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“The Divi intensive care register can show in a differentiated manner in which less polluted regions free intensive care beds are available,” it said.

"Thanks to the relocation concept, all seriously ill patients can also reach these beds."

Divi President Uwe Janssens and President-elect Gernot Marx also pointed out that the clinics in Germany would no longer carry out elective operations by Monday at the latest during the holidays.

That is "an important fact that will give us relief in the intensive care units".

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