FILE PHOTO: Medical workers wearing protective masks and suits are seen at the pulmonology unit at the hospital in Vannes where patients suffering from coronavirus disease (COVID-19) are treated, France, March 20, 2020. REUTERS/Stephane Mahe
FRANKFURT (Reuters) - Hospitals in the German state of Baden-Wuerttemberg have offered to treat some critically ill coronavirus patients from the neighbouring Alsace region in France, which is struggling to cope with a rising number of cases.
Four teaching hospitals and an army hospital in the south-western German state will take in 10 French patients requiring ventilation, and the state is checking with other hospitals for more spare beds in intensive care units, Baden-Wuerttemberg's science and research ministry said in a statement on Saturday.
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