Baden-Württemberg: Children's clinics in the southwest sound the alarm

Stuttgart (dpa / lsw) - With dramatic words, many children's clinics in the south-west have made an appeal for help to the state government in view of the overload and staff shortages. The system has been broken for years, urgent pediatric surgical interventions have been postponed, children have to wait for the therapy they need, according to a letter of protest from specialists from 23 of the approximately 30 children's clinics in the country, which is available to the German Press Agency. "For us, there is a concrete fear that we will send the wrong children home in overcrowded emergency rooms and without capacity in the wards, with potentially fatal consequences - that one of these children will not wake up in the morning." The letter was sent to the state government on Monday.