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The tense situation in intensive care units could soon get worse. DIVI President Janssens warns of failures due to the immense workload. Politically, a broader plan is needed.
The shortage of nurses in hospitals as a result of the corona pandemic could be exacerbated from the point of view of intensive care physicians. “Due to the months of stress that nurses in intensive care units have now endured, we fear that early next year we will have people collapse under the load and are no longer resilient enough and then come out,” said the chief. from the Medical Association of Intensive Care DIVI, Uwe Janssens, im common ARD and ZDF Morning Magazine.
“The situation in intensive care units remains very tense.” He continues to struggle with the consequences of the high number of infections in recent weeks.
There are not many free beds in the region.
For example, there are less than ten percent free intensive care beds in the Aachen area or in Cologne. “It seems similar in other regions,” emphasized the doctor. In the north alone, the situation remains good with around 30 percent free beds.
Janssens called for a uniform general policy concept. You had to speak with one voice and you had to formulate goals for the year 2021.
Janssens wants more realistic goals
Janssens called the target of a maximum of 50 new infections per 100,000 residents in seven days “a little too high.” Persistently low targets would be “very, very important” for medicine and the burden on the healthcare system.
Regarding the willingness to vaccinate among medical professionals, Janssens spoke of a “certain vaccine skepticism.” Employees in the medical sector must also be brought in and convinced to get vaccinated, for themselves, but also for the general public.
That is one of the most important tasks. The first results of vaccination are “very, very encouraging.”
