[ad_1]
The Graubünden government is determined to open the ski resorts, although its health director Peter Peyer (55) informed the meeting of cantonal health directors that there were not enough beds for skiing accidents, according to various sources.
How is that supposed to work? Complete slopes without enough beds for ski accidents? Just one avalanche with ten seriously injured people and the hospitals would collapse. Indeed, Graubünden should stop the ski lifts and gondolas. The Federal Council has stipulated that cantons can only issue permits for ski sports facilities if the epidemiological situation allows it.
Save the ski season
When asked by VIEW, Peyer does not want to confirm or deny that he made this statement. “I do not comment on rumors about statements that I should have made in an internal meeting.” A denial sounds different.
The SP politician has already taken desperate measures to save the economically important ski season in the tourist canton: he asked other cantons like Zurich if they would not be able to accept tourists from their cantonal area into their own hospitals in the event of serious injuries. “The responses were more than sobering,” Peyer said Monday.
Winter locations need security in planning
The hospital problem is likely to give Peyer a headache. According to ETH tracking, Graubünden still had two intensive care beds available on Friday. “Capabilities change rapidly,” he says. In fact, on Monday, ETH again showed ten free intensive care beds. This unpredictability is problematic for the government. As a cantonal government cannot open the tracks, close them three days later and reopen them five days later. Ski areas need safety planning.
Peyer knows: he needs a reservation at the hospitals. “How big it has to be, the governing council will decide, I hope this Tuesday.” Either way, the Bündner Reserve is very modest.
