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Germany is losing thousands of nurses in the pandemic
General practitioners must vaccinate from April.
Corona vaccines in Germany should be accelerated this month. Starting in April, the federal and state governments want to have vaccines in medical practices. According to the National Association of Mandatory Health Insurance Physicians, there are 75,000 offices available for this.
Germany lost more than 9,000 nurses in hospitals and nursing home care during the pandemic. This comes from data from the Federal Employment Agency. Nursing in clinics is particularly affected.
SSince the start of the corona pandemic, Germany has lost thousands of nurses, according to a media report. The decline affects both hospitals and care for the elderly, the newspapers (Tuesday editions) of the Funke media group reported, citing unpublished figures from the Federal Employment Agency (BA), which were asked by the parliamentary group of Left.
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 left-wing care policy in the Bundestag, Pia Zimmermann, blamed the federal Minister of Health, Jens Spahn (CDU), for this fact and accused the government of aggravating the situation by not financially structuring health insurance long-term care. “Additional and significantly better paid nurses are needed immediately.” To do this, people with higher incomes who until now have been privately insured would have to “pay uniform and solidarity contributions on all their income”.
