The global corona pandemic is the dominant topic of the day. The ultimate goal of all measures adopted is to contain the direct infections from person to person and the associated reduction of the daily growing number of cases of new infections. An effective means of achieving this is testing, testing and testing again. This is the only way to detect and interrupt potential chains of infection early on. Even if, according to the German Association of Laboratory Doctors, comprehensive testing is desirable, they also describe it as illusory. Because the necessary test materials are simply not available.
For a long time now, a wide range of measures have been taken in almost every country in the world to protect the population and prevent the further spread of the corona pandemic. People with symptoms typical of corona should therefore not simply go to their family doctor or hospital, but visit the nearest corona test centre by telephone.
The corona wave requires quick reactions and a high degree of flexibility. Hospitals and local authorities are using Trotec’s quick erection tents as mobile medical stations. Quickly erected next to the main hospital building, such a station, as a separate contact point for suspected cases and corona virus tests, relieves actual hospital operations. Or the district authorities can send mobile stations ‘across the villages’ to support rural medical infrastructure.
An onslaught of people infected with the corona virus in their rescue centres – this is the current fear in hospitals. This threatens the release of viruses at the heart of healthcare – in doctors’ waiting rooms and treatment rooms. In order to rule out this frightening scenario from the outset, more and more hospitals, but also many family doctor’s practices, are moving their waiting and diagnostic areas outside into a quickly erected and professionally equipped waiting tent.