Nursing homes and hospitals are supplied with emergency power
how the control center in Halberstadt told the MDR during the night that no evacuations from nursing homes and hospitals were necessary. All facilities are by own Notstromaggregate been taken care of. According to district fire chief Lohse, a ventilated patient had to be taken from a nursing facility to a hospital. All volunteers were deployed to ensure the care of the outpatients. In many cities, the fire department equipment houses were occupied to take emergency calls on site. Lohse spoke of several hundred emergency services.
As MDR SACHSEN-ANHALT learned from the Ameos Clinic in Halberstadt, the power outage had been noticeable there for about an hour and a half. However, patients were not harmed. However, devices were not usable. In the clinic in Quedlinburg, on the other hand, the power failure was not noticeable, it said at night when asked by MDR.
Fire brigade equipment houses as emergency centers
According to district fire chief Lohse, the large-scale power outages in the Harz district have revealed deficiencies in civil protection. They have shown that citizens are unable to make emergency calls in the event of a large-scale power failure. Landline and mobile phones would no longer work either. Lohse warned that something had to be done at the federal level so that something like this didn’t happen again.