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Zurich’s hospitals are running fast. Therefore, private and rehabilitation clinics must assist and staff in an emergency.
The Winterthur Cantonal Hospital Emergency Center. As a Covid-A hospital, the KSW treats severe courses of Covid.
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Although the infection figures in the canton of Zurich stall slightly, take hospital admissions Follow to. 393 Zurich residents They are currently hospitalized due to Covid, 87 of them in intensive care. In addition, Zurich hospitals treat 42 Covid patients from other cantons.
Several hospitals such as the University Hospital, the Triemli City Hospital, the Limmattal, Männedorf or Bülach hospitals have occupied almost all the available intensive care beds. S.that is to say be “Currently in great demand”, inform the cantonal authorities. That’s why be since Thursday the so-callednorthten Covid-C hospitals activatedas it says in a message. These include Affoltern Hospital, the Rehabilitation clinics and various private clinics.
In preparation for the second wave, the canton has divided its hospitals into three categories:
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Covid-A-Spitäler have the necessary experience and extensive intensive care medicine to be able to treat severe courses. University Hospital, Winterthur Cantonal Hospital, Triemli City Hospital, Hirslanden Clinic and Zurich Children’s Hospital fall into this category.
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Covid-B hospitals also treat severe courses with a few exceptions. Other large hospitals like Waid, Horgen, Uster, Wetzikon, and Bülach fall into this category.
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Covid-C hospitals treat patients who do not need ventilation, who are ill in the hospital, or who have assigned themselves. Several private clinics like the Sune-Egge, the Lengg Clinic or the Susenberg Clinic fall into this category.
“The Covid-A and Covid-B hospitals in Zurich have not yet reached their capacity limits, but they are under great pressure,” says Patrick Borer from the health department. Since you don’t assume couldthat the situation will be alleviated in the short term, the canton wants to relieve these hospitals.
From now on, C hospitals will be more involved in the pandemic.secondparticipate in coping. They are intended to treat patients with less severe courses or to take care of patients from other hospitals where the acute phase of the disease has ended. Non-Covid patients whose treatment cannot be postponed should also be able to be referred to Covid-C hospitals. “They thus serve as an overflow vessel to relieve hospitals A and B”, trush the health department With.
Intensive caregivers on call
Hospitals are organized according to their needs and resources. among themsays Patrick Borer. The health department monitors the general situation and intervenes if the hospitals could not agree.
Schulthess Clinic givehlocal to C hospitals, they hso far no crown patients have been admitted. “We could install a Covid station in 24 hours,” says CEO Andrea Rytz. The Schulthess Klinik already cooperated with the Hirslanden Klinik during the first wave. 15 employees – Intensive care nurses and anesthetists – they were trained in the intensive care unit there and are on call.
This is also stipulated by the canton’s new ordinance: Covid-C hospital employees must help out in busy hospitals if necessary. Even before Corona are Our employees at Hirslanden Klinik andbleeding»Says Rytz. For example, when it was duringr Summer vacation times many flu sicknorth it gave.
Affoltern Hospital, a other C-Spital, has been accepting Covid patients since the beginning of the pandemic. About a quarter of patients are currently Covid cases. “We have been implementing the new regulation since the second wave,” says media spokeswoman Nicole Keller. It looks similar at the See-Spital Kilchberg.
The Sune-Egge specialized hospital of the Pastor Sieber social work foundation had already taken in Covid patients, says media spokesman Walter Von Arburg. These were mainly people marginalized from their own institutions, for example outside the «Pfuyousbus», An emergency shelter for the homeless. The new regulation now too Patientinside from outside the social work come for example outside other hospitals. “We expected it and made the capacity available,” says Von Arburg. Other hospitals such as the Limmatklinik or the Susenberg Clinic did not want to provide any information on request. to your situation.
