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More and more corona patients end up in the hospital. Schwyz Hospital even launched a spectacular video call and warned of rising numbers.
Schwyz Hospital sounds the alarm: “The development is dramatic”(01:54)
But how full are intensive care units? ETH data shows in a monitoring system how many of the around 1,000 beds available in Switzerland are still free. As of Monday night, a total of seven of the ten beds in Switzerland were already occupied, one with a crown patient and six with other sick people, writes “Watson.” Hospital numbers are registered in the IES system of the Swiss Armed Forces.
“Not a worrying situation”
If we look at the cargo development since the end of March, three things stand out:
1. Between the end of March and the middle of April, the capacity of beds increased from 1,000 to more than 1,600. Just over 1,000 beds have been available in Switzerland since June. As Federal Councilor Alain Berset said at the press conference Wednesday afternoon, there is a possibility of increasing to 2,000 beds.
2. The number of patients with crown in intensive care units was 551 on April 3, which is the absolute highest point. Since then, the number has continuously decreased. At the end of June, the minimum was 22 patients. Utilization has increased again since the fall. Today, however, Switzerland is far from the situation it was in the spring. A total of 96 infected people were in the intensive care unit on Monday.
Michael Jordi, general secretary of the Day of Health Directors (GDK), gives the go-ahead for the moment. “Despite the increasing number of cases and hospitalizations, the situation in intensive care units is still not worrying,” he told BLICK earlier in the week.
3. The number of patients without a crown decreased during the first wave of spring. While 473 beds were occupied by crown patients on April 5, there were only 253 crownless patients there on the same day. This number can be explained, among other things, by the postponement of non-urgent operations.
Watch TV in the morning: 600 crown patients in Swiss hospitals(20:06)
Zurich’s intensive care units are 74 percent occupied
Although the situation seems relatively relaxed compared to the rest of Switzerland, there are large differences between the individual cantons.
According to ETH monitoring, all 26 beds in the intensive care unit in the canton of Solothurn are already occupied, by corona and non-corona patients. In the canton of Neuchâtel there is one last vacancy, in the canton of Schwyz there are three. In Bern, 112 of a total of 142 places are occupied, in Zurich the occupancy rate is 74 per cent (330 places are occupied, 115 are still free).
The canton of Valais has a capacity of 47 beds; there are still 16 available. There is a similar relationship in Ticino. 34 percent of the 104 beds are free. (man)
