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SPIEGEL: Mr. Werner, in Saxony, Berlin or Bavaria, many intensive care units are already on the brink. The University of Essen Medical Center is one of the largest hospital associations in the Ruhr area and has excellent medical care. Divi’s Intensive Care Registry now also shows limited availability of intensive care beds for some of its locations. Should it be a warning sign for the entire Federal Republic?
Werner: Yes, it should. We are definitely in a tense situation. Load capacity no longer allows normal operation. We are currently treating around 130 Covid 19 patients as inpatients, around 40 of them in the intensive care unit. Every day one or two people die from Covid-19, sometimes more. And what many forget: the majority of patients are still those without Covid-19. Anyway, there is already a nursing emergency. For months now, staff have been working in even more tense conditions than before. It does not leave them without a trace. Employees who have worked in intensive care for years tell me they have never experienced anything like this.
