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Hamburg (dpa) - The corona pandemic is also having an economic impact on the Hamburg clinic operator Asklepios.
In the first nine months, the number of patients treated in the Asklepios facilities fell by more than 30 percent to 1.25 million people, as the group announced on Thursday evening.
This does not take into account the takeover of the competitor Rhön-Klinikum, which was completed in July.
In the same period last year, Asklepios had treated around 1.86 million patients.
Hospital operators are suffering financially from the Corona crisis, as some people do not dare to go to clinics for fear of infection.
In addition, operations that were not medically necessary were postponed in the spring to make room for corona patients.
This also has an impact on the balance sheets, although state compensation payments for clinics mitigate the losses.
Asklepios explained that the consequences of the corona pandemic were the determining topic for the rest of the financial year.
The services of the federal states for the clinic operators have not yet been finally clarified.
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“The coming months will remain enormously challenging for us both medically and economically,” said Asklepios CEO Kai Hankeln.
"Bureaucracy and political arbitrariness make forward planning even more difficult - this applies equally to all clinics."
It is therefore all the more important that Rhön-Klinikum and Asklepios complement each other strategically and are stable.
With the takeover of Rhön, Asklepios has risen to become the second largest private clinic operator in Germany after Fresenius Helios.
Together, Asklepios and Rhön have around 32,508 beds.
In the first nine months, Asklepios achieved sales of a good three billion euros (previous year excluding Rhön: just under 2.64 billion euros).
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