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In the worst case, the federal and state governments introduce the cloverleaf principle.
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The Robert Koch Institute reports 19,059 recently infected people
Germany is preparing for a second lockdown. Bars and restaurants remain open the last weekend before a four-week break applies from Monday. The Robert Koch Institute, meanwhile, reports 19,059 recently infected people, a new record.
The partial shutdown begins in Germany on Monday. Its purpose is to prevent hospitals from running out of intensive care beds. If that happens, a new concept of governance should help.
secondA further sharp increase in the number of intensive care patients suffering from Covid-19, the federal government is planning a nationwide distribution with the federal states. “If a situation develops that forces people to move beyond neighboring countries or regions, the so-called cloverleaf principle is applied,” says a concept of the Federal Ministry of the Interior and the ministers of the Interior and Health of the states Federal agencies, on which several news agencies report unanimously.
The “Covid-19 worst-case scenario” therefore works according to a semaphore principle. In the event of an imminent overload (red plan), Germany will be divided into three to five main regions, which are intended to support each other to take care of patients by ambulance or helicopter. It was first reported by the newspapers of the Essen Funke media group (Saturday).
According to the concept, Hamburg, Bremen, Lower Saxony, Schleswig-Holstein and Mecklenburg-Western Pomerania have joined forces in the north. In the east are Berlin, Brandenburg, Saxony, Saxony-Anhalt and Thuringia. In the southwest, Hesse, Baden-Württemberg, Rhineland-Palatinate and Saarland will support each other. The most populous federal states of North Rhine-Westphalia and Bavaria each form their own large region.
A spokesman for the Federal Ministry of the Interior told the German Press Agency: “Clear structures and processes, medical advice and pooling of transport resources ensure that if there is a threat or regional overload of care capabilities intensive, a balance can be managed within Germany even under complex framework conditions. “
The president of the conference of health ministers, Dilek Kalayci (SPD), told the Funke newspapers that the preparation would be useful and necessary in view of the increasing number of cases in the clinics. States and the federal government have done so with the cloverleaf concept, which intervenes before clinical supply capacity is overloaded. The Berlin Health Senator explained that if a federal state or region shows signs of heavy use, supra-regional transport of patients to the receiving regions will be organized through offices centrally established in the regions. In this way, patients would receive the best possible medical care even when clinics are under great pressure.
