According to a survey, more than half of the hospitals (59 percent) only need to bridge the gap for a few days if there is an emergency power supply. This is the result of a survey by the German Hospital Institute (DKI), which was presented to the German Press Agency on Tuesday. According to this, 21 percent of the clinics could only last a few hours in the event of a power failure. However, every hospital is able to bridge the gap in the meantime. First, the “Handelsblatt” reported about it.

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According to the survey, if there were a power failure lasting several days, only 14 percent of the hospitals surveyed could act normally with regard to their patient care – around 40 percent of the clinics only with significant restrictions or only with emergency care. In 7 percent of the hospitals, the supply would even have to be stopped.

In October, 288 facilities from the hospital pool of the German Hospital Institute with more than 50 beds took part in the survey.

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