At the beginning of the cold season, the “Initiative of the Berlin Children’s Clinics” warned in an incendiary letter of a supply bottleneck: This was inevitable as long as the “persistent structural grievances” were not remedied: “Furthermore, we feel it is our responsibility to point out that under the current conditions the treatment of children and young people cannot be adequately guaranteed.”
The “Brandbrief” is the third in an initiative founded at the beginning of 2022 by assistants and specialists from Berlin children’s hospitals. It is supported by the Berliner Ärzt:innen Initiative eV, the Marburger and Berlin-Brandenburg and the Klinikrettung Alliance.
We care about the health of the little patients entrusted to us.
Initiative of the Berlin children’s clinics
The letter says that the economic constraints of the clinics are further increasing the staff shortage. There are always phases in which important medications become scarce. The new Hospital Care Improvement Act threatened to close clinics and reduce bed capacity. Due to the increased workload, the medical staff hardly have time to breathe: “We worry about the health of the little patients entrusted to us and everyone who works in the care of children and young people.”
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The signatories are calling, among other things, for more staff through a secure medical supply key, further training guarantees for assistant doctors, ensuring comprehensive pediatric care without the closure of additional children’s clinics and a national reserve for children’s medicines.
