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A hospital in Zittau, Saxony, in eastern Germany, is examining reports of possible triage in patients with a crown. Classification, broadly speaking, can mean that when resources are scarce, healthcare professionals must decide who to help first.
At the moment, nothing can be said about the remarks allegedly made by the medical director of the Oberlausitzer Bergland Clinic in an online citizen forum Tuesday evening, said a spokeswoman for the Görlitz district health center, to which the hospital, to the German press agency. .
A Deutschlandfunk reporter had tweeted that medical director Mathias Mengel had said on the forum that triages had to be performed multiple times at the Zittau Clinic because there were not enough ventilation beds available. The doctor explained to the t-online news portal: “In recent days we have been several times in the situation where we had to decide who receives oxygen and who does not.”
