Health Minister Klaus Holetschek did not skimp on drama on Tuesday. Around 580,000 people in need of care are currently living in Bavaria. It is likely to be one million by 2050. "Where will the people standing by the bed come from in the future?" asked the minister. Care could become the "question of fate" for an entire generation, "if we don't set the course now".But of course the state government wants to act. The working conditions for domestic nurses...
An exhibition in the Bavarian Main State Archives is dedicated to the opponents of vaccination, whose existence dates back to the beginnings of compulsory vaccination 200 years ago. Ultimately, it is also a story of failure. from Hans scratches, MunichDeath, suffering and frustration - the corona pandemic has brought all this with it, and on top of that, public life has largely been shut down and many livelihoods have been destroyed as a result. In the wake of the pandemic,...
In my job, I not only care for sick people, I also learn a lot that actually has nothing to do with care. In another job I probably would never have noticed one thing: many older people have tattoos. It is often just a single one, small and unobtrusive on a part of the body that is not immediately visible when a tank top is worn in the summer.For example, the man, well over 60, on whose upper arm I...
The Freie Wohlfahrtspflege in Bavaria welcomes the announced multi-million dollar support for Springer models in geriatric care by the state government. In this way, an idea that was originally financed by the Evangelical Church and implemented for the first time by the Bavarian Diakonie could "be tested across the board", said the current chairwoman of the Freie Wohlfahrtspflege Bayern, the Bavarian Diakonie President Sabine Weingärtner.The Bavarian Minister of Health Klaus Holetschek (CSU) recently announced that around 7.5 million euros would...
Perfluorooctanoic acid (PFOA), a raw material for all kinds of impregnations and coatings, has not been manufactured in the Gendorf Chemical Park for 20 years and has not been processed for 15 years. And yet the suspected carcinogenic substance can still be found in the district of Altötting in the soil and groundwater, in venison and fish - and in people's blood. Only when a study of blood donations from the municipality of Emmerting became known in 2017 did the...
The general practitioners Rike Berhalter, Verena Herold and Andreas Pohl have opened a branch practice in Andechs. The need is enormous, although the situation in the district of Starnberg is comparatively good. How does that fit together? And what can be done to counteract the shortage of doctors in rural areas?from Linus FreymarkYou can't complain about a lack of customers. In some places, in the big cities, there is definitely competition among general practitioners. But here in Andechs? So everyone...
Because the corona situation is easing, Health Minister Klaus Holetschek is in favor of an examination and, if possible, a relaxation of the corona visiting regulations in hospitals. "After talking to the Bavarian Hospital Society, I appeal to the hospitals to adapt their guidelines for patient visits to the changed infection process," said the CSU politician on Monday in Munich.Visits are important for the recovery of patients and restrictions on visiting rights must be proportionate. From Holetschek's point of view,...
Recently, one of my patients wanted to slip me a 20 euro note. "There, sister, look, that's for you," he said. I took the money first, thanked him - and then put it back with the other bills when he wasn't looking. We played the same game again later, he seemed to have forgotten the first round. This was no surprise as he was in a confused state.It happens again and again that patients want to give me a bill....
The Bavarian Association of Statutory Health Insurance Physicians (KVB) will continue to have a general practitioner at its head in the future. The association's assembly of representatives on Saturday in Munich elected general practitioner Christian Pfeiffer as chairman of the board by a large majority. The 55-year-old family doctor from Giebelstadt in the Würzburg district announced that he wanted to work to ensure that work in practices remained attractive. More needs to be done to prevent a doctor shortage.The Association...
The intellectual channel Arte recently showed a film about the joys of freezing. A young Finn bathed in the ice hole at minus 27 degrees. This is a temperature at which arctic foxes sometimes break off their tails. But the wife thought it was all really great, especially the shivering afterwards, you really feel that you are alive and stuff. The whole documentary went in the direction that you should shock freeze yourself regularly.If you're shivering in front of the...
