German hospitals are reducing the number of intensive care beds reserved for patients requiring hospitalization for coronavirus, despite the growing number of infections.
The authorities of the federal state of Baden-Württemberg announced that in the future, a maximum of ten percent of beds will be left for severe patients with coronavirus, instead of the previously planned 30, – reported the Frankfurter Allgemeine Sonntagszeitung. Thus, the state government follows the development in other federal states.
In Berlin, ten percent of beds have been reserved for patients with coronavirus since June. In Lower Saxony, the same number, but from mid-July. In Bavaria and Brandenburg, hospitals are no longer required to hold intensive care beds for Covid patients since summer, and Hamburg lifted the quota in August. At the beginning of September, Saxony-Anhalt also canceled this regulation.
The only land that has decided to keep vacant places for patients with Covid is Rhineland-Palatinate. Since spring, hospitals have been ordered to keep 20 percent of intensive care beds free for coronavirus patients. A spokesman for the Ministry of Health said that this decision cannot be changed.
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