Police searched senior housing and doctor's office in Lichtenberg and Prenzlauer Berg - suspected negligent killing and assault

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according to a report by www.berliner-zeitung.de , the Berlin police searched two senior housing complexes, a business address and a doctor's office in Lichtenberg and Prenzlauer Berg on Wednesday. Numerous patient files and other documents were confiscated. On behalf of the Berlin public prosecutor's office, 48 civil servants carried out a total of 27 search resolutions. According to the police, thirteen people in need of care in Lichtenberg could have been harmed between January 2017 and January 2023. The people in need of care are said to have treated incorrectly not sufficiently qualified or negligent employees of a nursing service.

suspected negligent killing, assault and abuse

Two women are said to have died due to non -proper care. In one of the cases, a 75-year-old suffocated because food clogged the trachea. The nurses would not have reacted adequately. In addition, some seniors are said to have led through improper storage, and there are several cases of possibly incorrectly administered or offset medication. The concrete crimes to which are determined, loud negligent killing in two cases, dangerous bodily harm and abuse of protective persons.
A procedure for accounting fraud is already being conducted against those responsible for the nursing service, which is currently also being investigated. The starting point of the new investigations is the findings from documents from the nursing service and several criminal charges.

As a Berlin citizen, it is shocking to hear that those in need of care may have been treated incorrectly and even abused. These incidents shaked confidence in the care facilities. It is important that the police and the public prosecutor carry out thorough investigations in order to take account of those responsible and ensure that something like this does not happen again. The security and well -being of the elderly in nursing facilities must be a top priority. It is important that the public is informed about such incidents to create awareness and ensure that appropriate measures are taken to improve the quality of care.