Erfurt (dpa/th) - Since the beginning of the corona pandemic, the hospitals in Thuringia have received compensation payments for pandemic-related loss of income and investments totaling almost 767 million euros. This emerges from an overview by the Federal Office for Social Security as of July 15. The payments to compensate for lost income alone, which were made by mid-April, totaled around 634 million euros. In order to get capacities for the treatment of Covid 19 patients, many clinics had postponed planned, non-urgent operations during the various pandemic waves. As a result, fixed calculated income fell away.
According to the Federal Office, the supply surcharges for hospitals with a particularly large number of corona patients totaled 112 million euros. These were paid from November 2021 to the end of June 2022. In the first year of the pandemic, 2020, a good 20 million euros also went into equipping the houses with additional intensive care beds. The Federal Social Security Office is responsible for processing the payments.
There are around 40 acute hospitals in Thuringia. Most recently, the number of corona-related hospital admissions had increased again, although the situation within Thuringia varies from region to region.
