Hospital emergencies in the mountains – the cantons of Grisons ask for help in ski accidents – in vain



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Graubünden wishes to send skiers who have suffered an accident to its cantons. But they say they have no place in their hospitals either. Does this mean that the largest tourist canton has to close the ski areas?

Also skiing at Christmas?  Or not?  Impressions of the Davos Parsenn ski area.

Also skiing at Christmas? Or not? Impressions of the Davos Parsenn ski area.

Photo: Gian Ehrenzeller (Keystone)

The call for help from the mountain comes a few days before the start of the Christmas holidays. Graubünden, the largest tourist canton, fears that it will not be able to adequately treat accident-affected ski tourists because its hospitals are on edge.

In Chur one had therefore eAn idea: why not ski to tourists who have suffered an accident? memenfach andnorth his Transportation back to the cantons of residence? Or ahonors said: the Lowland cantons should the Grisons andGive a kind of money-back guarantee for its residents.

Of course, this is not what Peter Peyer (SP), Graubünden’s health director, would call it. But he confirms On demand: «We asked several hospitals in the cantons of origin of our tourists if they had the capacity to ski tourists who had an accident. But the answers were sobering. “It was said everywhere the Hospitals are already full thanks to Corona.

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