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The Minister of Health, Rudi Anschober, speaks of a situation “not deactivated”. On the contrary, a new challenge awaits us in January.
Figures that give hope, but must not become reckless: “The number of new infections in Austria has gradually decreased in recent weeks,” says Health Minister Anschober (Greens). While there were as many as 77,000 active cases in November, the number has dropped to around 25,500 today. The number of hospitalized could also be significantly reduced to 2,648, according to the health minister.
“The main objective of the strict lockdown in mid-November was to avoid difficult triages. This major catastrophe could actually be prevented for now. With a peak of up to 709 intensive care patients with Covid, the overload of intensive care departments was already alarmingly large. This number of ICU patients could now be reduced to 445 today, but this is still an overload that cannot be borne for long, “says Anschober.
Now come the flu sick
He points out that the hundreds of postponed operations must be recovered quickly and, in the experience of recent years, starting in mid-January, people with severe influenza must also be cared for in intensive care units. “Austria must therefore continue to significantly reduce the number of infections so that access to hospitals and intensive care units is significantly reduced again and normalization occurs,” says Anschober.
“On Christmas night and holidays alone, a total of 500 doctors and almost 2,000 nurses work in intensive care units across Austria and fight for the survival and health of patients in difficult conditions and severe overload. Here , day after day and really great achievements hour after hour, “Anschober said.
“Sincere thanks for that”
“A sincere thanks for this and for the great work throughout the strong health system throughout Austria,” said the Minister of Health. This thank you represents everyone in the health professions, the committed physicians and the 160,000 committed nurses in hospitals and nursing homes and nursing homes. “Everyone is particularly challenged by the worst health crisis in decades and everyone is doing a great job,” Anschober said.
