(Fighting New Coronary Pneumonia) Germany diagnosed with over 250,000 will invest 4 billion euros to enhance the health sector's anti-epidemic capabilities
China News Agency, Berlin, September 5th. As of the 5th local time, the cumulative number of people diagnosed with the new crown virus in Germany has exceeded 250,000.
The German Federal Ministry of Health announced on the same day that in response to the shortcomings exposed in the fight against the epidemic, the federal government will invest 4 billion euros to help the state health departments improve their human resources and promote digitalization and organizational modernization.
Among them, by the end of 2022, the German health sector will add 5,000 jobs.
German Federal Minister of Health Span announced the resolution when he held a press conference in Berlin on the same day with the chairman of the joint meeting of state health ministers and Berlin Health Minister Kaleigi.
Since the end of July, the epidemic in Germany has rebounded, and the number of newly diagnosed people in a single day has remained above 1,000 for many days.
According to a report from Germany's "Times Online", as of 22:28 on the 5th local time, a total of 250,786 confirmed cases, 222,899 cured, and 9,494 died in Germany.
In the past week (August 30-September 5), a total of 8241 cases were added.
After German Chancellor Merkel and state governors reached a resolution on August 27 to moderately tighten epidemic prevention measures, on the 5th of this month, Spann announced that the federal and state health ministers focused on strengthening human resources construction, advancing modernization, and achieving networking. Consensus reached.
The German Federal Government will provide 4 billion euros in six years from next year for the health sector throughout Germany to improve the aforementioned three aspects.
Among them, by the end of 2021, at least 1,500 new full-time positions will be created in each state to hire doctors and professional managers.
By the end of 2022, 3,500 similar jobs will be added.
In addition, local health bureaus will increase investment in the field of digitalization, with specific measures including the provision of more modern IT infrastructure, more secure data security solutions, and the realization of the networking of local health bureaus.
Spane said that during the epidemic, the federal government and the states jointly clarified the shortcomings of the health sector. “We not only hope to overcome this new crown crisis, we also hope to learn lessons from it so that public health care departments can help the future pandemic. Be prepared." (End)