#die linke

Mr. Merz said yesterday that he wants to improve the conditions in healthcare. But to be honest, no politician has ever said otherwise.

Nothing has gotten better.

I’ve seen kids loose their parents, I’ve assisted a mother give birth to her baby in the car in front of the hospital and I’ve seen more dead people through system failure than you can imagine.

I’m from the Emergency room.

I’m not here because I studied politics, but because I know exactly what it feels to work a shift with one other nurse, taking care of 30, 40 or more patients.

When you just have to function, even though everything around you is collapsing.

A lot is written in the coalition contract. But do you know what’s not in there?

A concrete plan on how to truly improve the conditions for EVERYONE that works in a hospital or healthcare.

No minimum personell, no clear no to rates per case, no relief.

This contract is a slap in the face for everybody who keeps this damn system running day for day, while ruining their own health.

Instead of real solutions we get nice words and empty promises, those don’t help me during shifts. During those it matters if there’s enough personell, if somebody can take a break, if you go home after the end of your shift or if you add another hour of overtime and work yourself into burn out.

Miss Minister, this is your responsibility now.

And I’m telling you clearly: All those who continue to ignore the healthcare emergency right now, makes themselves at fault, for everything that goes wrong in our clinics. And also for when colleagues find patients dead.

We are your responsibility.

We need mandatory care, we need patient to nurse ratios, we need public and well financed hospitals. And we need comprehensive tariff agreements and especially for colleagues at hospitals like Charitè, tariff escapes have to be stopped.

Remember, the average age in this parliament is relatively high. That means that everyone, sooner or later, is gonna need this healthcare system.

Oh no… most of you are… sadly insured privately