Well....for past two months....the German medical folks have been talking about the ICU bed situation, increasing virus numbers, and effort being put forward by medical teams.
Today, via Focus....the BIG hint came.
What the medical folks admit now....they have the ICU beds and hospital space to handle the increasing numbers. That's not the problem.
The problem is....they don't have the trained personnel to handle the increasing numbers. It's a shortage of nurses and doctors that is now evident.
Part of this issue is that the medical support folks also are facing Covid-19 issues (some entering quarantine for themselves, or for family members). So the expandable group of folks that you really need now? They don't exist.
Prioritization coming? Probably. You might be in a rough situation and need to move from the home to the hospital....to find that no ICU position exists for you, unless you agree to some unit 300 kilometers away.
Home care coming out of this mess?
It won't surprise me if we come to January, and some German medical folks suggest bringing in 3,000 untrained folks for a three-week training program to be some marginal-level Covid-helper for the hospital wards.
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i thought all those refugees were much needed , skilled medical professionals ?
ffs germany . you voted for it , drown in it . ( ditto usa ) . i'll eat popcorn , drink everclear and fantacize about the gibsme bunch coming up my hill . nobody ever gibds'd me anything .
( prepper with a survivor complex )
I had a conversation one day with a Russian who held a pharmacy degree. The German job-center was absolutely set not to accept that 4-year degree to the German level. She could be a clerk in a pharmacy, but not a pharmacist itself. I ran into a Tunisian guy who had the same experience....he was a two-year degreed medical technician and had all the papers to prove the point...they weren't going to accept that either. I met a Afghan gal who held a mathematics four-year degree....same deal. She could not be a school instructor because she was not German degreed. I met a Syrian guy with a 4-year degree in journalism....same issue.
The system is built to the effect that they want entry-level people, who then enter the training program for two to three years. The BS they've handed out about 'much needed'....it wasn't geared toward higher educated people.
The skilled medical shortage? They were 'bragging' about the issue three years ago, and did virtually nothing except agree to bring in Philippine and Mexican nurses (special program and language studies had already been accomplished).
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