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Brandenburg's Prime Minister Dietmar Woidke (SPD) at the hospital conference in Potsdam.
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To support hospitals in financial distress, the state of Brandenburg is launching its own state program in the short term.
This is intended to bridge time until the planned hospital reform by Federal Health Minister Karl Lauterbach (SPD) can take effect.
“We want to preserve all of our hospitals,” said Brandenburg’s Prime Minister Dietmar Woidke (SPD) after a hospital conference in Potsdam on Tuesday evening.
Potsdam - Many clinics nationwide are in financial difficulties.
In Brandenburg, too, there are already cuts in care, for example due to the closure of clinic departments.
Finance Minister Katrin Lange (SPD) announced that hospitals with high financial deficits should be able to take out loans from the State Investment Bank with the help of the support program.
The conditions are more favorable than on the free credit market.
The program, the volume of which is still being determined, should be launched for a limited period of one to one and a half years.
A group of experts will examine the affected hospitals on a case-by-case basis.
Lange was initially unable to say how many clinics would be eligible for such liquidity support.
The hospital company, clinic managers as well as district administrators and mayors were present at the hospital conference in the State Chancellery.
dpa