Well....this takes some explaining.
N-TV picked up the topic today and I'll reference them.
So hospitals around Bavaria and Saxony (eastern region) are reaching capacity. The German Air Force? It's been drawn in....to move patients.
From Bavaria....24 folks got picked up on Saturday and moved. Six more were to be moved today. Locations getting people? NRW (far NW state) and to a smaller extent....Hamburg.
Using their air-ambulance? That was the plan.
The deal involved? These are noted as 'exceptional cases' (I figure they mean ICU/ventilator folks).
Here's the thing....there are generally x-number of ventilators around, and no one appears wanting to move these....so in the German logic...it makes more sense to pack the patient up and move them. Trying to do this by vehicle? No one is going to drive for ten hours across Germany to deliver a patient to an alternate hospital.
Now, you can imagine a Bavarian guy laying there....pretty much in a weaken state, having a bad mental deal and some nurse says.....we gotta move you, and you think she means maybe from this floor to another, or maybe to a hospital 45 minutes away. So while dozing....there's some moving/shaking going on....an ambulance ride to some airport.....a feeling of taking off, and waking up hours later....to be in Hamburg. Yes, a 80-minute flight away.
How you handle things when the hospitalization is over? Well....I doubt if the government brings you back home, and this might be a pretty good adventure.
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