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Brazilian Deborah Zilz was lucky, and after spending the night in the emergency room, she was able to hospitalize her little Andreas, suffering from a serious illness. respiratory complicationat the hospital of St. Joseph in Berlin, gripped by an epidemic bronchiolitis which affects several European countries.
“When I arrived at the emergency room two days ago, there was no room,” says Zilz, 33.
The staff “phoned all the hospitals in Berlin and from Brandenburg”, a neighboring state, looking for a crib for her 13-day-old baby.
“Eventually, after spending the night in the emergency room, we were able to stay,” he says. His son in intensive care lost 3.1 kg, which he weighed at birth.
Baby suffers bronchiolitisa chest infection that particularly affects young children and is currently heavily affecting Germany.
After two years of the coronavirus pandemic, when the widespread use of masks protected the smallest from exposure to respiratory viruses, some European countries are now seeing a strong resurgence of the disease.
The situation in 2022 is especially bad among newborns and children newly exposed to the respiratory syncytial virus (RSV), which usually causes bronchiolitis.
The pediatric team at St. Joseph’s Hospital in Berlin goes above and beyond with a smaller staff than ever.
“We are up to our necks in water,” admits Beatrix Smchmidt, head of the hospital’s department of pediatrics and neonatology. AFP.
“An incredible number of sick children, infected workers, and at the same time a chronic shortage of staff” is the perfect storm in which to drown, explains this responsible person.
Children pay the price
St. Joseph’s Hospital, located in the Tempelhof district near the center of Berlin, usually has 80 beds for sick children, but due to a lack of toilets, only 51 can currently be used.
The intensive care unit employs 18 available.
Many sick children had to be transported by helicopter to other areas, for example, to the state of M.Ecklenburg-Vorpommern (northeast) and Lower Saxony.
According to the Robert Koch Institute of Health, 9.5 million people in Germany suffered from some form of respiratory disease in Germany last week across all age groups in a country of 84 million people.
This figure is significantly higher than the same period in 2021 and exceeds the peak of the 2017-2018 flu epidemic.
Schmidt believes that many of the problems are related to cost-cutting policies.
“We have been saving in our healthcare system for many years. And children are the first to pay,” says the doctor. (AFP)
Source: RPP
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