Hospitals maximised profit by reducing staff numbers. Lisa became an elected spokesperson for the movement and the public sector workers union Ver.di.Īt Berlin’s two main public hospitals Vivantes and Charité, workers had been feeling the pressure for years. Workers formed the Berlin Hospital Movement to fight for better conditions. The rest of us joined the union and joined the fight because we saw this was the last chance of changing something.” “Some people were too burned out to stay in the job. “I realised I won’t be able to work in this job for the rest of my life if there’s nothing changing,” says ICU nurse Lisa Schandl, a trainee at the time. In Berlin, the pandemic was the final straw. As the virus raged, causing an influx of patients and widespread staff sickness, the remaining workers were stretched to breaking point. The same situation played out in hospitals around the world: when the COVID-19 pandemic struck, health care workers were plunged into chaos.
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