Nuremberg (dpa / lby) - 35 wounded Ukrainians have been brought to Bavaria for medical treatment. They arrived Thursday with the Luftwaffe at Nuremberg Airport. They come from various treatment centers in Ukraine and have "war-related injuries," as the Bavarian Ministry of the Interior announced when asked. The Ministry does not know whether they are civilians or members of the military; this doesn't matter either.
The wounded were flown aboard a Bundeswehr Airbus A310 via Poland to Nuremberg, where they were received by around 100 rescue workers in the afternoon. Ambulances then drove them to clinics in all Bavarian administrative districts. Specifically, eight patients remain in Middle Franconia, seven each should be taken to Upper and Lower Franconia, four to Upper Palatinate and three each to Upper Bavaria, Swabia and Lower Bavaria.
The campaign is based on the so-called cloverleaf principle, which is intended to prevent regional overloading of hospitals and intensive care units through an even distribution and, if necessary, cross-border transfer of patients. It was also used during the corona pandemic. This system divides the Federal Republic of Germany into five cloverleaf areas; Bavaria is its own "sheet".
"Patients [from Ukraine] will be distributed evenly to each cloverleaf area," a ministry spokesman said. 17 Ukrainian patients had previously been cared for via the system in the Free State. "Now it's Bavaria's turn again to admit patients."
