German Bundestag, Plenarprotokoll 20/74,
8809-8810.
Right honorable Frau President. Ladies and gentlemen.
Hospital care in Germany presently stands before the horrifying
result of the years’ long ignorance of the ruling policy in regards this
fundamental area of a sozial society.
Now already, necessary care measures often cannot be implemented with the
needed expenditure because there is a shortage of time, personnel or the
corresponding training. It comes to an implicit rationing; care of patients,
surveillance of patients, conversation with relatives and a correct
documentation are scarcely still to be appropriately realized.
The actual care work is increasingly hollowed out because our
highly qualified and well trained care staff need to undertake duties which
could be ensured by other personnel. The nurses need to concern themselves with
the sick, and ought not to serve as a collection and delivery service, as
cleaning staff or as full-time documentation staff.
The discontent resulting therefrom ever again ends in the
flight of qualified staff to other professions. The more than unjust Corona
care bonus law, in regards to which many co-workers came out empty-handed, has
led to further displeasure – thus to a devilish circle which cannot be broken
if you are not able to answer the question of how you want to obtain more
personnel.
In the discussion of the draft law in committee, in regards
my proposal, it came to one of the usual cries of the left-green bloc: “And more
immigration!” That means: So as to solve
the problems in the hospital care, we need, according to the red and green
view, additional immigration.
Kordula Schulz-Asche (Greens): Of course we need it!
Nicole
Westig (FDP): For all!
Götz Frömming (AfD): Exactly, the others who cling to the staff!
Yet that exactly is your psychological problem, valued
colleagues. You believe to be able to solve with immigration all the problems
which in the last decades in Germany have piled up to a Kilamanjaro. Germany is
long since no more an attractive immigration land for foreign skilled labor.
Kordula Schulz-Asche (Greens): We have demographic problem! We have a demographic problem because women were prevented from combining career and children!
I am speaking here.
The taxes and duties in this country are much too high and
the working conditions too poor.
Götz Frömming (AfD): That is the truth! Place 13, behind Roumania!
Yet Germany is meantime the most attractive immigration land for sozial refugees.
Kordula Schulz-Asche (Greens): Yet who have no care training. On that account, this plays no role here!
Our European neighbors and friends meantime fill special
trains so as to bring these people for free. We need now state: That out of
this potential of two to three million immigrants of the last years,
Christos Pantazis (SPD): We are speaking on a hospital care relief law!
we could not once obtain sufficient skilled labor to sort
the baggage at the airports, to say nothing of trained care staff with the
absolutely indispensable knowledge of the language.
I want here to explicitly mention the nationwide study “I
may nurse again, if…” of the Bremen employees chamber of April 2022 with more
than 12,000 questioned.
Heike Engelhardt (SPD): The theme!
In this was said: There might be at least 300,000 full-time
nursing staff in Germany as a result of a return to the profession, or by
making available an additional increase of working hours in so far as the
working conditions were improved. You have managed, at a time in which there
was a personnel shortage, to force thousands out of the profession by means of
the institutionalized vaccination mandate, and to intimidate others from
becoming active in this area. There continues to be a slackness in hiring because
the illegally institutionalized vaccination mandate still runs to the end of
the year and was not previously set aside.
If you do not now grasp healthcare and nursing as one of the
core duties of the state, we will unavoidably slide into the care catastrophe,
and you will be asked who is responsible for that a once so exemplary
healthcare system as that in Germany could be so seriously damaged.
Therefore, do justice to your duty, take responsibility, and appropriate more money for our healthcare system.
Many thanks.
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