Gröhe 10-point plan against clinic germs

Gröhe presents ten-point plan against clinic germs

03/23/2015

Every year, up to 15,000 people die in German hospitals after they become infected with multidrug-resistant germs. With a ten-point plan, Federal Health Minister Hermann Gröhe (CDU) now tells the dangerous hospital germs to fight.

Ten-point plan against multi-resistant germs
According to a report, Federal Health Minister Hermann Gröhe (CDU) wants to proceed with a ten-point plan against multi-drug-resistant germs in hospitals. So reported the „Southgerman newspaper“ (SZ) on Monday, citing an internal paper of the Ministry that Gröhe, among other things, the Robert Koch Institute (RKI) wants to involve more in the control of clinics. It also said that there was a need to examine whether patients could be tested for multidrug-resistant bacteria before hospitalization.

Annually up to 15,000 deaths from clinic germs
According to the SZ, the Minister of Health also wants to tighten the reporting requirements for particularly dangerous germs and improve the information available to patients. Accordingly, there should be compulsory training for doctors and nursing staff. According to the paper, between 12,000 and 15,000 people die in clinics every year in Germany because they are infected with multidrug-resistant germs. It is said that experts at the Ministry of Health expect the problem to worsen in the future.

People with weakened immune systems are at risk
According to the report, the reasons for this are the increasingly older and thus more vulnerable patients, the increasing number of complicated interventions and the increasing number of dangerous pathogens. The headlines in recent months clinics in Kiel and Hamburg, where multi-drug resistant germs were detected. Such germs do not necessarily lead to death, but especially for people with weakened immune systems - so many patients in hospitals - there is an increased risk. For example, an infection can trigger symptoms such as inflammation, diarrhea, nausea and vomiting or blood poisoning in patients. (Ad)