Kitas in Berlin: Sick children ensure a need for care!

Kitas in Berlin: Sick children ensure a need for care!

Berlin. The cold season has a firm grip on Berlin, and many parents continue to bring sick children to daycare centers! The consequences? Alarming conditions in the facilities!

The daycare centers in Berlin are currently experiencing a real rush of sick toddlers. Fever, coughing and runny nose are the order of the day, but many parents do not seem to deter this. "Since Corona, parents have been brought to the daycare center more often than ever before," said Julia Simon, a spokeswoman for the City kindergartens. This tactic is highly dangerous: According to Simon, this always leads to breaks of respiratory diseases, while care instability increases. Last week, 17 percent of the educators were sick, which led to massive restrictions in four institutions.

urgent call to the parents

The Situation is tense! Roland Kern from the umbrella organization of Berlin's children's and school shops (DAKS) reports frequent conversations about sick children. "The parents are under pressure, perhaps from their employers, while the daycare educators see the child's exhaustion," he explains. This means that the fears of the other parents are not unfounded before infection!

The central message of the daycare centers: Sick children and supervisors have no place in the daycare! "If your child is sick, please stay at home! Otherwise we risk a dangerous chain reaction of diseases that nobody can stop," emphasizes Simon. The city's daycare centers face a difficult challenge - and the parents have to recognize that the state of health should come first!