Committed to service during the Corona crisis
Anthroposophical enterprises and hospitals are committed to supporting Covid-19 patients and are producing additional disinfectants.
The Havelhöhe Community Hospital (DE) is one of seven coronavirus centres in Berlin. An initial consultation takes place via a telephone hotline; if an infection is suspected, patients can attend the Corona clinic in a separate building for treatment. By 16 April, there had been 6303 telephone consultations and 1602 patients had come to the corona outpatient clinic, 765 of whom were tested. Ventilator beds have not been needed.
The anthroposophic hospital in Arlesheim (CH), as the biggest private hospital in the Basel district, is represented in the cantonal Corona crisis management group. In agreement with the Canton and the crisis management group, the hospital has prepared two Covid-19 wards with 25 beds each. They will be used if the capacity of the nearby Bruderholz hospital, the official Covid-19 emergency centre, is exhausted. This has not been necessary yet because of the way the situation has developed up until 17 April. Providing this availability and the fact that all non-urgent treatments and therapies had to be cancelled have led to “considerable financial losses” for the Klinik Arlesheim, says communications officer Verena Jäschke, particularly because specialist physicians are ready to support the emergency centre, and outpatient appointments had to be cancelled for this. The Arlesheim hospital has also made beds and bedside-tables available to the emergency centre.
Also in connection with the Corona crisis, Weleda France are producing 600 litres of disinfectant per week for the regional health authority. In addition, Weleda have supplied 1000 operating masks and several hundred gowns to medical centres.