5th wave in Switzerland – Hospitals, overloaded, have to triage patients

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5th wave in Switzerland – Hospitals, overloaded, have to triage patients

The Hirslanden Clinic in Aarau did not admit a cancer patient to intensive care. Hospitals across the country are increasingly making these kinds of choices.

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As measures against the fifth wave of coronavirus were taken too late, hospitals are increasingly having to triage patients, reports the “SonntagsBlick”.

Thus, a cancer patient was not admitted to intensive care at the Hirslanden Clinic in Aarau, but was placed, with his consent, in a normal ward, says the deputy director of the intensive care unit of the Christian Frey establishment. If the number of cases of new SARS-CoV-2 infections continues to increase, triage will also increase, he adds.

Insufficient measures

For the Geneva epidemiologist Olivia Keiser, it is clear that the current measures are not enough. Hospitals are overcrowded and yet almost nothing is happening, she says.

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