Ceremony for 100 years of the kbo-Isar-Amper-Klinikum: The traditional house is an important pillar of psychiatric care in the region.
Taufkirchen
- The kbo-Isar-Amper-Klinikum has an eventful history.
After dark times in World War II, things have changed a lot in the past few decades.
Today it is an important part of mental health care across the region.
On Wednesday the house celebrated its 100th birthday.
Because on May 21, 100 years ago, the first patient, as patients were called at the time, was admitted to the Taufkirchen state welfare center.
The clinic would have liked to celebrate the birthday with the citizens: jazz in the park, symposia, just an open day.
The ceremony fell victim to the pandemic and was now celebrated on a small scale.
"Back when I was a little boy, the gates of the psychiatry were still locked - you weren't allowed to go through," recalled Mayor Stefan Haberl (39).
Most people were somewhat shy of the clinic and the patients: "Because we like to suppress the thought of illnesses."
In addition, over 800 employees would work in the facility, many of them from Taufkirchen.
The Isar-Amper-Klinikum offers apprenticeships, a nursing school is also part of it.
"The primary goal of the community is to secure the clinic location in the long term, to create expansion options."
The Bavarian Minister of Health, Klaus Holetschek, was one of the congratulators.
His speech was about the dark phases in psychiatry.
He recalled “the inhuman ideology during the Nazi era”, in which mentally ill patients, also in Taufkirchen, were housed in so-called hunger houses and perished there.
Or they were deported from here to Haar and on to a killing center.
According to the minister, the psychiatry inquiry was not initiated until the 1970s. The conditions in the clinics, the hospitalization and the lack of prospects of the patients were denounced. Taufkirchen also changed and broke new ground: Instead of a facility for long-term residents, some of whom spent their lives in the clinic, a modern acute clinic was set up here. "Through targeted decentralization and de-hospitalization", the situation of the chronically ill has improved significantly. A change that could only succeed because a complementary outpatient network was established outside the hospital and patients could also be treated outside the hospital, according to Holetschek.
"Psychiatric care is very important to me," said the minister, who expressed concern about how "children and adolescents will get out of the pandemic", the traces and burdens they carry with them.
The Free State has pumped a total of 643 million into hospitals this year: “Not just the applause, but better working conditions and better wages in nursing,” the minister considers to be immensely important.
Franz Podechtl, managing director of the kbo-Isar-Amper-Klinikum, thanked the community, the district and the state ministry for the cooperation: "We will hopefully celebrate the 110th anniversary in new rooms." Because a major renovation is planned.
MICHAELE HESKE
