Even in the third year of the corona pandemic, one can get the impression that too little is happening politically to prepare for an autumn wave. A clinic manager told the star how the overload in her hospital can be prevented and a politician from a region with many unvaccinated people how to increase the vaccination rate.
Recorded by Andreas Hoffmann
Erika Raab is the managing director of the Groß-Gerau district clinic. Above all, she is concerned about the overloading of the clinics in autumn:
Nursing staff and doctors must be able to concentrate fully on treating their patients. This is the only way for the clinics to provide nationwide care for the citizens – especially if the number of Covid hospitalizations continues to rise in autumn and winter. In view of the shortage of skilled workers, this can only succeed if politicians give the clinics enough breathing space. As?
Source: Stern
