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Air Force helps clinics
In view of the tense situation at many German clinics, the German Air Force began on Friday to help move seriously ill patients. Over the course of Friday, patients with severe COVID-19 courses are to be flown from the Bavarian town of Memmingen to Münster in order to relieve the hospitals in the particularly polluted region. A doctor from the Air Medevac Team of the German Armed Forces describes how the ventilated patients are cared for on board. “Anesthesia teams, consisting of an anesthesiologist and an anesthetist intensive care nurse, are responsible for the patients themselves. As a rule, when we fly six ventilated patients, two to three of these anesthesia teams are deployed here. In addition, a certain number, mostly eight to ten, emergency paramedics on board, who mainly help with carrying and caring for the patient. ” Accordingly, patients can be ventilated on board the machine for up to ten hours. Jens Spahn, Executive Minister of Health, said on Friday morning: “The situation is dramatically serious, more serious than at any time in this pandemic.” At great expense, up to 100 intensive care patients will be relocated within Germany Luftwaffe to fight the pandemic.
Up to one hundred Covid-19 intensive care patients are to be relocated to other areas by the armed forces from overloaded clinics.