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Bergmann Hospital in Potsdam: investigation stopped
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The Potsdam public prosecutor's office has closed the investigation into the corona outbreak at the Ernst von Bergmann clinic in Potsdam.
A causal connection between the way the accused dealt with the Covid-19 outbreak in the clinic and deaths and infections could not be proven, the public prosecutor said.
There is also no criminal offense under the Infection Protection Act.
The investigations against three senior physicians and the former management of the clinic on suspicion of negligent bodily harm and negligent homicide have been ongoing since autumn last year.
At the beginning of the pandemic in March 2020, infections with the pathogen Sars-CoV-2 had accumulated in the hospital.
By the end of April, 140 patients and 208 employees had tested positive.
47 infected people died in the clinic.
After an investigation, experts from the Robert Koch Institute criticized, among other things, that moving entire wards could have favored virus transmission.
In April 2020, the clinic had admitted omissions.
"In the period from March 13 to 26," the management announced at the time, "a critical development in the context of the corona pandemic was not sufficiently recognized." Internally, the intensive care unit was called the "black ward" because of the accumulation of deaths.
ptz / dpa
