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"Then I sit in front of the TV with a clenched fist!" Lauterbach gets a broadside from the nurse

2022-07-04T09:52:51.055Z


"Then I sit in front of the TV with a clenched fist!" Lauterbach gets a broadside from the nurse Created: 07/04/2022 11:39 am Intensive care nurse Ricardo Lange as a guest on "Anne Will" (ARD). © NDR/Dietmar Gust Anne Will would like to know from Minister of Health Lauterbach whether his ministry was able to cope sufficiently with a corona wave in autumn. A nurse sounds the alarm.  Berlin – "W


"Then I sit in front of the TV with a clenched fist!" Lauterbach gets a broadside from the nurse

Created: 07/04/2022 11:39 am

Intensive care nurse Ricardo Lange as a guest on "Anne Will" (ARD).

© NDR/Dietmar Gust

Anne Will would like to know from Minister of Health Lauterbach whether his ministry was able to cope sufficiently with a corona wave in autumn.

A nurse sounds the alarm. 

Berlin – "What does it mean for you, Mr. Lauterbach, 'don't overload the health system'?!" The committed intensive care nurse Ricardo Lange, who announced to his 60,000 followers on Twitter that he "does not want to finish off" Karl Lauterbach, can do his at "Anne Will". express your opinion directly to the top political boss in front of the camera.

Lauterbach lets him do it, but there is no argumentative proximity between the two.

"When the staff collapses crying in the hallways," the nurse, who has already been invited to the interview by Chancellor Olaf Scholz (SPD), throws Lauterbach on his feet, "when people die due to a lack of staff" because of the Corona If, for example, important cancer screening measures are not taking place, this shows that the health system is already overburdened.

Not the only tricky moment.

"Balance of the corona policy - is Germany better prepared for the next wave?": In her current ARD program, moderator Anne Will asks the current status of the corona policy with a strict eye: Vaccination protection, school closures and lockdown, nursing staff, commission report .

"Anne Will" - these guests discussed with:

  • Karl Lauterbach (SPD) -

    Federal Minister of Health

  • Christine Aschenberg-Dugnus (FDP) -

    Parliamentary Secretary and member of the Health Committee

  • Ricardo Lange -

    Intensive Care Nurse

  • Christina Berndt -

    science journalist, author

The highlight is probably the debate between the two protagonists of the healthcare system, who could hardly be more different.

On the one hand, the muscular Tall Man in a white polo shirt.

He sits with his legs apart in the armchair – and doesn't mince his words: "Then I'll sit in front of the TV with my fist clenched," he describes his mood when political announcements about the alleged relief of the nursing staff are made.

Federal Minister of Health Prof. Karl Lauterbach (SPD) as a guest at "Anne Will" (ARD).

© NDR/Dietmar Gust

On the other side the slim built professor in the ministry, as usual in a dark suit.

Lauterbach doesn't let anything shake him, remains distinguished in his choice of words, lets the accusations roll off in Rhenish singsong: "I know the situation very well," he begins;

he has been working on countermeasures for years.

Lauterbach counters the accusation that staff cuts are being made in the health and care sector - to the detriment of the emergency services on site - by eliminating case flat rates in the care sector, which was enforced on his "initiative".

As a result, hospitals “can no longer make a profit by firing nurses”.

Lauterbach also announces a new care relief law with advantages for clinics and staff - but without becoming more specific. 

Anne Will (ARD): Nurse Lange describes Lauterbach's everyday clinical life - "Standing with half a leg in jail"

But that's not enough for Lange: "There's no staff there at all!" he rants and gives an insight into the day-to-day accounting of hospitals: "All the clinics cheat," says Lange.

"The service staff must now complete a one-year training course to become nursing assistants so that the clinics can then bill them as nursing staff." Staff are already being used where their training does not allow it: "In the intensive care unit, nurses do a lot more than they actually do are allowed”, claims the orderly, “They stand with half a foot in jail”.

When Lange hears even more gloomy experiences from his everyday hospital life, Lauterbach pulls the emergency brake: "Just like you, I have spoken to people where relatives have died," the minister adds, he feels "sorry for every single one".

But he resists the impression that "we did it arbitrarily".

Anne Will now steers the conversation to the next point of contention: the final report of the expert commission.

The

South German

science journalist Christina Berndt sometimes gives it a bad grade: "You knew the things that were in there beforehand," was her devastating verdict.

The report was "knitted with a hot needle and scientifically thin".

Will even provocatively suspects that the report is an instrument of the FDP-led Ministry of Justice under Marco Buschmann.

Because that has an important say in the matter of the Infection Protection Act, so that the new law, which is to follow the expiring old law in September, remains constitutional.

But Lauterbach says it's not true that the traffic light "waited with measures for the fall".

Lauterbach on "Anne Will" on the lockdown: "We don't need it anymore"

The parliamentary director of the FDP, Christine Aschenberg-Dugnus, does not want to accept the accusation and defends the expert report: He has managed “that we now have real-time data”, she contradicts the journalist’s judgment and that “the wastewater monitoring on could be brought on the way.

The method should enable conclusions to be drawn about the regional spread of the virus.

The FDP politician clarifies what results her party also draws from the report: "School closures will no longer occur." Chancellor Scholz had also promised hours earlier.

Minister of Health Lauterbach does not quite agree and does not want to completely rule out the possibility of school closures because one does not know “which variants will come”.

But he thinks it is "very, very unlikely".

Another lockdown is also, "according to everything we know", "completely unrealistic.

We don't need it anymore," says Lauterbach.

For the Infection Protection Act, Lauterbach promises technical improvements with “better data” and a “radar”, as well as another vaccination campaign and test regulation.

Will asks whether he was disappointed that he could not enforce the law introducing compulsory vaccination.

Lauterbach replies cautiously: “You have to deal with that.

That's called democracy.”

Conclusion of the "Anne Will" talk

The political talk on Sunday evening provides a good overview of what will follow in autumn in terms of corona politics.

But the real problem, the lack of nursing staff, the dissatisfaction of the employees, remained in the room without a solution.

(Verena Schulemann)

Source: merkur

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