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"It's just unfair"

2022-11-24T06:09:37.180Z


"It's just unfair" Created: 2022-11-24 07:00 By: Hans Moritz Corona has presented the clinics and their staff with the toughest challenges in years. © Marijan Murat/dpa Well meant is often the opposite of well done. At least that's how many nurses feel when it comes to the federal corona premiums for overworked healthcare workers. Erding – There is talk of a disturbing injustice. Lena Brennin


"It's just unfair"

Created: 2022-11-24 07:00

By: Hans Moritz

Corona has presented the clinics and their staff with the toughest challenges in years.

© Marijan Murat/dpa

Well meant is often the opposite of well done.

At least that's how many nurses feel when it comes to the federal corona premiums for overworked healthcare workers.

Erding – There is talk of a disturbing injustice.

Lena Brenninger is one who raises her voice against this on behalf of many colleagues.

The 22-year-old works as a nurse on the internal medicine ward 2b (cardiology/pneumonology) at the Erding Clinic.

The Federal Ministry of Health distributes three bonuses to the nursing staff.

In October, reports Brenninger, each clinic employee received 157 euros.

All "normal" nurses are currently being paid 2,200 euros, and intensive care workers 3,300 euros.

The latter should receive another additional payment, so that they come to around 5000 euros gross.

Brenninger makes it clear: "I don't begrudge my colleagues." The injustice: "All other nurses deal with Covid patients as well.

After all, the intensive care patients are then transferred to the normal ward.”

She herself worked on the Covid ward for two years, right after the exam.

Because the 2b was converted into this one.

The Erdinger herself experienced how high the risk is outside of the intensive care unit: “I got infected twice with SarsCoV2, both times at work.”

And that's why she and many of her colleagues come to the conclusion: "Everyone deserves all three bonuses." And by that, Brenninger doesn't just mean the nursing staff, "but everyone who has worked in the healthcare sector during the pandemic.

For me, the cleaning staff are just as much a part of this as the rescue service”.

What she doesn't understand at all: "How does politics decide who gets how many bonuses?" And she points out: "Recently, the normal wards were occupied with corona patients and were more overloaded than the intensive care wards." In Erding were there have in fact been very few in the past few weeks.

She fears that the bonus distribution will split the workforce, especially since nursing assistants, for example, have no entitlement at all.

"They also gave their all during the pandemic." Their conclusion: Although Federal Minister of Health Karl Lauterbach is a doctor himself, "politicians obviously have little idea of ​​reality".

That's why, after consultation with her ward manager and the nursing director, she decided to go public.

Because: "It's just unfair." ham

Source: merkur

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