The lightning ice also took its toll on the hospitals in Styria on Monday: the emergency department of the University Hospital of Graz was overflowing with patients and the UKH Graz even had to close at short notice due to the enormous crowds.
Broken ulna and/or radius: The children’s clinic in Graz was full on Monday with small patients who had fallen on the slippery streets and suffered a fracture. “We noticed a significant increase in the number of admissions in the early morning hours. In children, it is mainly injuries to the upper limbs that require treatment,” says Simone Pfandl-Pichler, spokeswoman for the university clinic.
The emergency surgery department of the university hospital has also been busy for hours: “People come in with broken knees, ribs, hips, etc. While we currently count about 20 fractures on an average day, today there were already 70. .’ Pfandl-Pichler drew up a first balance sheet around 11 a.m.
“The influx is extreme”
Due to the enormous crowds, the UKH in the Styrian capital even had to close at short notice on Monday morning: “The ambulance was already overcrowded in the morning, the crowds were so extreme that we can no longer accept patients who come by ambulance. “We have to process the patients first,” an employee told “Krone” over lunch.
Source: Krone
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