Flown in from Poland by the Bundeswehr: Berlin clinics are expecting up to 20 patients from the Ukraine – Berlin
This Wednesday, the Berlin clinics are expecting up to 20 patients from Ukraine. Those affected suffer among gunshot and blast injuries as well as fractures and chronic diseases. The patients are flown by the Bundeswehr from Poland to BER in Schönefeld.
The men and women, according to the Tagesspiegel information, all civilians, as well as some children are treated in the trauma centers of the Charité locations in Wedding and Steglitz, the Vivantes Clinic Friedrichshain, the accident hospital in Marzahn and the Helios Clinic Buch.
Hundreds of injured Ukrainians have been treated in Berlin clinics since the end of February. It is unclear exactly how many there were. Only a few of them were brought to the capital by the Bundeswehr transports coordinated with the Senate and the Federal Government, many came to Berlin with the help of non-profit organizations, through relatives and acquaintances.
The local hospital managers distribute the patients, who are transported to Poland by land and flown out from there by the Bundeswehr, in a similar way to the Covid 19 intensive care cases during the pandemic. The federal states resort to the “cloverleaf” concept.
This divides Germany into five regions, the so-called shamrocks. Thuringia, Saxony, Saxony-Anhalt, Brandenburg and Berlin form the “East” region.
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Only when there are no more hospital beds available in a region do hospital managers ask for help nationwide.
Soldiers of the Ukrainian army have been cared for in Germany since 2014, including when the fighting in eastern Ukraine began. However, this is only in individual cases. It is seldom talked about openly, unofficial information was also announced so as not to provoke the Russian government. As reported, the federal states are currently paying for the treatment costs.