Cologne Clinics Under Fire for Cleaning Services: Managing Director Responds to “Team Wallraff” Report

After the recent broadcast of “Team Wallraff” on RTL, the clinics in the city of Cologne are also being criticized. Now managing director Prof. Dr. Axel Goßmann commented on the reports about the cleaning services in his houses.

The article about the building cleaning company sector sent on April 4th deals, among other things, with the work of the company Apleona, which also carries out building cleaning work on behalf of the Cologne Clinics in the Holweide, Merheim and Amsterdamer Straße Children’s Hospitals, the clinics divide your website. Apleona’s work performance in Holweide and especially Merheim was part of critical reporting.

Further measures will be taken immediately to ensure hygienic cleaning performance.

“Hygienic cleanliness has an absolutely high priority in all areas of our three hospitals,” explains Goßmann: “Our service provider Apleona has a special responsibility on our behalf.” In the article, RTL drastically questioned the company’s services, and through the nationwide According to the report, the Cologne clinics and in particular the Merheim hospital are now publicly portrayed in a very negative light by reporting.

The management of the Cologne Clinics and the responsible departments are in discussions with Apleona, emphasizes Goßmann: “Further measures will be taken immediately to ensure hygienic cleaning performance. We reserve the right to take any further consequences.”

Doubts about the “glow check”

An editor from “Team Wallraff” was employed by Apleona as a cleaner in order to anonymously check the cleaning performance and test various locations in the Cologne clinics using a “glow check,” the statement continues. The aim is to demonstrate negligent cleaning using an invisible liquid under blue light.

It is emphasized that the procedure is known to the Cologne Clinics, but depending on the quality of the surface, it can trigger “false positive” results even on an optically smooth surface. This particularly applies to certain areas in Merheim Hospital that were shown in the film.

2024-04-09 21:43:05
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