BERLIN – Germany has activated her Intensive Care Unit (ICU) plane to help fellow European Union member, Italy cope with its skyrocketing cases of COVID-19.
The plane, medical experts have described as the world’s best medevac for COVID patient, is an Airbus A310 MedEvac, that will be used to fly COVID-19 patients from Italy to hospitals in Germany.
The plane has a capacity of 44 beds of which 16 are for high intensive care patients, and up to 25 medical staff.
The facility comes with a number of items including the intensive care ventilator “Evita 4” transport ventilator “Oxylog 3000”, multi-function monitor “Propaq EL106”, 2 triple syringe pumps “Combimat 2000” suction pump “Accuvac” v
Additonally, onboard includes;b16 “Micropaq” patient monitors, 1 “I-Stat” blood gas analyzer, 2 flexible bronchoscopes, “SonoSite” portable ultrasound system, 6 “Barkey” patient warming systems, 12-lead ECG and 2 defibrillators
Yet still, the Plane also has 16 “Combimat 2000” triple syringe pumps, 4 Medumat LifeBase III, 4 “IP 2000” infusion pumps, 1 central monitor system and1 refrigerator for medical chilled goods
Statistics collected within three months indicates that the Coronavirus death toll, worldwide as of 28th of January 2020 was, 130, and by 28th of February the number has risen to 2,900 and on 28th March 2020, the figure has risen to 30,800.
Globally, the countries that have recorded the most coronavirus deaths include; Italy: 10,023, Spain: 5,982, China: 3,295, Iran: 2,517, France: 2,314 US: 2,227 and UK: 1,028.
The others include; Netherlands: 640, Germany: 433, Belgium: 353, Switzerland: 271, South Korea: 152, Brazil: 114, Sweden: 112 Turkey: 108, Indonesia: 102, Portugal: 100, Austria: 68 and Philippines: 68 Italy has reported 92,472 cases of which 3,856 are in critical condition, 10,023 deaths and 12,384 recoveries.