Health system: Emergency clinics: Germany's hospitals are on the verge of collapse. That's really what's behind it

Where do you start these days, when it's about Corona again, about this plague that has us under control for the third year, that is annoying, that many ignore, some even deny?</p>Perhaps with Beatrice Freisinger in the Marienhospital in Stuttgart.

Health system: Emergency clinics: Germany's hospitals are on the verge of collapse. That's really what's behind it

Where do you start these days, when it's about Corona again, about this plague that has us under control for the third year, that is annoying, that many ignore, some even deny?

Perhaps with Beatrice Freisinger in the Marienhospital in Stuttgart. She has worked here for 18 years, manages 40 nurses and says: "I haven't experienced such a low point in a long time."

Continue with the emergency physicians Viktoria Bogner-Flatz and Dominik Hinzmann, who coordinate rescue services and clinics in Munich and the surrounding area. "For weeks we have been struggling to maintain emergency care," they report. Sometimes not a single ambulance is reported ready for use in the metropolis.

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