Berlin Germany’s doctors are taking to the barricades: they categorically reject the legal regulation on triage in the pandemic intended by Federal Minister of Health Karl Lauterbach (SPD) in its current form.
There is an “urgent need for revision,” warn 27 medical societies, networks and working groups in a joint statement “on the draft bill to amend the Infection Protection Act,” which was sent to the Federal Ministry of Health on Friday. In particular, the doctors do not want to support Lauterbach’s ban on the highly controversial so-called ex-post triage.
Ex-post-triage means that patients who are already receiving intensive care can have the ventilator taken away from them, even against their will, in favor of another person with better chances of survival if there are not enough resources for everyone.
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