Arrival of the injured last Wednesday at BER Photo: Olaf Selchow
By Birgit Buerkner
Charité specialists treat the seriously injured from the war zone.
“The patients from Ukraine admitted to the Charité last Wednesday are mainly treated for gunshot fractures, mine injuries and spinal cord damage,” said a spokesman for the Charité of the BZ
Seven of the 22 war casualties transported to Schönefeld in a Bundeswehr aircraft on Wednesday were admitted to the university hospital. Other patients are being cared for in the Bundeswehr hospital (centre) and in Brandenburg clinics.
The Ukrainian patients were first transported overland across the border to Poland and then flown to Germany on a Bundeswehr aircraft specially equipped for transporting the injured.
For the distribution, the federal states resorted to the so-called cloverleaf concept set up for the corona pandemic. Together with Brandenburg, Saxony, Saxony-Anhalt and Thuringia, Berlin is part of the Kleeblatt Ost, which is coordinated by Saxony-Anhalt.
