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Twelve dead, 44 infected, so the terrifying toll from a massive corona outbreak in Lichtenberg! How did the nursing home scandal come about?
By Boris Dombrowski and Emma Neugebauer
“The medical officer will now closely examine together with the Senate Health Department if and where there may be deficiencies in the home,” Lichtenberg’s chief health adviser Martin Schaefer (45, CDU) said Sunday at the BZ.
For example, the objective is to check if “the staff has come to work despite the symptoms,” he explains. “Also, regardless of the rapid tests announced by the operator from the middle of the week, we will again cut staff and residents on Monday and Tuesday,” says Schaefer.
In addition, the health department has ordered “that the nursing staff can no longer change within the home, but must always be deployed on the same floor to avoid possible confusion,” emphasizes Schaefer.
BZ was there on Sunday. The park in front of the house was empty. The residents looked sadly out of their windows. A nurse, who wants to remain anonymous, says: “They did all the tests on us, but the test results came too late.”
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What are the current numbers at home? “Currently, 27 residents and 17 employees are corona-positive,” said a spokeswoman for the operating company Kursana for the BZ on Friday night, 14 of the infected residents were rushed out of the multi-story house (108 individual rooms and 20 doubles) on Gensinger Straße.
Where? “Eleven are in the Vivantes temporary emergency care center, two of which tested negative on Sunday,” the spokeswoman said. Three more are now in the hospital, one of them due to unclear symptoms. “The other 13 residents who have tested positive at the facility so far have not had any symptoms of Covid 19,” the spokeswoman said.
The sad news: Twelve infected residents have already died in the last five weeks. “As far as we know, they all had previous serious illnesses or were in palliative phase,” said the Kursana spokeswoman.
On October 8, the first resident (during a stay in a clinic) tested positive and the nursing home and retirement home was immediately closed to visitors. “After that, partial tests were carried out in individual housing areas,” said the Kursana spokeswoman. On November 3, the results of the whole house tests would have been available for the first time.
