By Birgit Buerkner
2,700 doctors at the Charité called for a walkout on Wednesday.
Several hundred Charité doctors want to stop work on Wednesday between midnight and midnight.
What does this mean for patients?
“The extent of the strike participation is currently not foreseeable for the Charité,” said a Charité spokesman when asked by the BZ. “We are taking precautions to ensure that there is no risk to patients.” The central emergency rooms are staffed at all times.
“The Charité will try to ensure that there are no restrictions on appointment-based treatments,” assured the spokesman. Patients should phone the place where they had made an appointment to ask whether it would take place.
The doctors’ union Marburger Bund has called around 2,700 doctors from the Charité campus in Mitte, the Virchow Clinic (Wedding) and the Benjamin Franklin Clinic (Steglitz) to the all-day warning strike. Among other things, the employees meet at a rally on Robert-Koch-Platz (middle) from 9.30 a.m. to 11.30 a.m.
“We register a high willingness to strike among our members,” said Peter Bobbert, Berlin-Brandenburg head of the Marburg Association. “More and more overtime and additional services are being accumulated, with no end in sight to the burden.” Among other things, the union calls for doctors to limit on-call services to four per month, four weeks in advance, rosters secured and 6.9 percent more wages.
Patients in Brandenburg could also face supply bottlenecks this week. General practitioners and specialists in private practice are protesting against the planned abolition of the new patient regulation with limited consultation hours.
This provides for extra surcharges for the admission of new patients. They are also demanding a rescue package from the federal government to absorb increased energy costs.