Charité CEO Heyo Kroemer expects the clinic to normalize soon after the restrictions at Christmas. “We have the impression that sick leave among staff is decreasing significantly again,” he said on Friday in Berlin. In order to maintain emergency care and treatment in the children’s clinic, the “usual Christmas program” was started a week earlier than usual and operations were postponed.
“Now we will leave the story with the same calmness,” said Kroemer. He expects this to happen in the near future. The decisive factor, however, is the sick leave among the staff.
In addition to the influenza virus, the respiratory syncytial virus (RSV) is currently circulating, which can be particularly dangerous for small children and infants, but with which adults can also become infected. Pediatric facilities in particular are very busy as a result. To make matters worse, there is a greater lack of staff than already, because doctors and nursing staff also fall ill with influenza, RSV and corona.
The health service had been asked to only use doctors or hospital emergency rooms during the holidays in urgent cases. In this way, the city’s health care providers could primarily help those people who absolutely and immediately needed help, according to the Berlin Hospital Society, the Association of Statutory Health Insurance Physicians and the health administration. (dpa)
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