Health crisis in Treptow-Köpenick: Doctors are missing, care endangered!

Health care in the Berlin district of Treptow-Köpenick is in a serious crisis. As the Berliner-zeitung.de/mensch-metropole/treptow-gesundheit-droht-li. Numerous general practitioners, pediatricians and specialist practices are vacant, which leads to significant supply gaps and depends on the residents on difficult to reach and overloaded health services.

Compared to the western districts such as Steglitz-Zehlendorf and Charlottenburg-Wilmersdorf, the density of medical practices in Treptow-Köpenick is significantly lower. This unequal distribution has serious effects on the health care on site. The planned hospital reform of Health Minister Karl Lauterbach could also increase two-class medicine, as it aims to reduce clinic structures and stronger focus on outpatient care. This could deepen the inequality in particular in structurally weak and populated districts.

political efforts to improve the Situation

The Senate has already released around 20 percent of nurses in the Jewish hospital, which further weakens the health infrastructure. Nevertheless, there are political efforts to improve the supply situation, such as the establishment of two medical care centers (MVZ). A first success is the opening of a new family practice of the Association of Statutory Health Insurance Physicians in Köpenick, realized by the health councilor Carolin Weingart.

An acute problem is the impending closure of medical houses, such as on Dammweg in Plänterwald. MPs Catalin Gennburg is committed to preserving the practice rooms. In other parts of the city, such as Johannisthal Süd, the left also calls for the preservation and expansion of doctor's seats. In the long term, the party strives for a municipalization of the health infrastructure in the district, in particular due to the above-average proportion of older people, for whom the ensuring of care and care offers is central.

In this context, a round table has been initiated to expand outreach care offers.

Current discussions about health care in Germany show that many people with private health insurance have the opportunity to step out of the solidarity system. As the Frankfurter Rundschau mentions, a Bertelsmann study could be so that statutory health insurance companies could take nine billion euros more if all Germans could be legally would be insured. In Germany, two-class medicine is spoken, since about 10 percent of the population are privately insured and an average of over 50 percent earn more than legally insured persons.