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Zurich University Hospital calls for closure. For the first time, a young cancer patient must wait for urgent treatment. And after the holidays, a third crown wave threatens.
The intensive care units are full: treatment of a Covid patient at the Triemli city hospital in Zurich.
Photo: Gaetan Bally (Keystone)
Let’s call him Samuel Z .: The young cancer patient from the canton of Zurich suffered from the corona pandemic last week. Actually, the doctors at the Zurich University Hospital were supposed to remove a tumor. But that failed because there are only three free places in the intensive care unit in one of the largest hospitals in Switzerland. That is why the hospital management made the painful decision to send Samuel Z. home again.
Gregor Zünd, director of the hospital, confirms: “Last week we had to postpone for the first time an urgent operation on a young patient with a tumor. Hope we can operate it next week. Intervention is urgently needed. “
