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Tuesday, March 9, 2021
In the middle of the pandemic
Germany is losing thousands of caregivers
Before the Corona crisis, the number of employees in the care industry is increasing. But the pandemic appears to have reversed the trend. According to the Federal Employment Agency, the new staff reduction is particularly notable in the clinical area.
According to a media report, Germany has lost thousands of nurses since the start of the corona pandemic. The decline affects both hospitals and care for the elderly, the newspapers of the Funke media group reported, citing unpublished figures from the Federal Employment Agency (BA), which were asked by the left-wing parliamentary group.
As a result, the number of employees in charge fell by more than 9,000 between the beginning of April and the end of July 2020, corresponding to a decrease of 0.5 percent. In total, around 1.8 million people were recently employed in nursing care in Germany. However, before the pandemic, the number of employees in the care industry increased slightly.
According to the report, nursing in clinics was particularly affected by the recent decline. Consequently, the decrease in the number of employees occurred in the first high phase of the Corona crisis in 5124. In the elderly, the number of employees decreased by 3,885 in the period from the beginning of April to the end of July, a total of 9009 fewer nurses.
According to the report, all 16 federal states were affected. In the clinical area, the decrease in staff is greatest in Bremen with 1.7 per cent, followed by Saxony-Anhalt, Thuringia, Saarland and Rhineland-Palatinate. In care for the elderly, Hessen posted the biggest drop with a 1.6 percent decline. Bremen, Bavaria, Hamburg and Lower Saxony followed.
The spokeswoman for the left-wing care policy in the Bundestag, Pia Zimmermann, blamed the federal Minister of Health, Jens Spahn, for this fact and accused the government of aggravating the situation by not financially structuring health and long-care insurance. term. “Additional and significantly better paid nurses are needed immediately.” To this end, the main wage earners who until now have been privately insured would have to “pay uniform and solidarity contributions on all their income.”
