This got brought up by RBB (Berlin's public TV network) today.
So in the region of Berlin/Brandenburg.....they have 800 ICU beds in their possession. HOWEVER, they don't have trained 'operators' of the beds, so they are in a non-op status.
I know....it's a bit funny in a way.
This goes back to a trend seen in 2021, and noted in public news about three weeks ago....that around 4,000 ICU beds across Germany are non-op because various nurses across the nation have either quit in 2021 or gone to lesser hours.
The funny part to this story....the federal gov't went out and put over 500-million Euro into new ICU beds for 2021. This came after the spring surge and hospitals figured they needed the ICU beds for what was coming.
Retraining going on? Yeah, but it might be several months before you see positive results.
Then adding to this whole thing....in the Berlin region, they admit that they need a recruitment drive of about 10,000 additional nurses to be hired (by 2030).
The sad thing here is that you assume that hospitals are handling their requirements, and when you finally get bad off....needing care....then you discover that they have ICU beds around (probably in plastic wrap) but no one much to understand the technology involved to operate them.
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