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Job cuts mount in German clinics and nursing homes despite the pandemic
In many parts of Germany, nursing staff have been working at their limits for over a year now. But now, in the middle of the country’s third wave of the pandemic, doctors, nurses and caregivers are faced with a new threat: clinics are laying off personnel to boost profits. This is a slap in the face of caregivers and nursing staff, for whom this will mean increased workload and even greater stress.
For days now there has been a steady stream of news in the German media about planned layoffs and clinic closures.