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Main article: Germany
Hygiene
Disease statistics
HIV/AIDS
Diabetes
2022: In Germany, 431,313 people have type 1 diabetes
Coronavirus COVID-19
Main article: Coronavirus COVID-19 in Germany
Depression
2019: Chronic depression affects 11.6% of the population aged 15 + years
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Hospitals
2022: 1,900 hospitals with 490,000 beds
There are about 1,900 hospitals with 490,000 hospital beds in Germany in 2022.
Transplantology
2023: Post-mortem organ donation cases per 1 million people - 11.2
Different national (and sometimes regional) systems exist in EU member states to allow people to consent to organ donation after death. Within the framework of the "voluntary consent" system (opt-in, presumption of disagreement), consent must be given explicitly during life. The system of "refusal" (opt-out, presumption of consent) supports the principle of "presumed consent" (silence is tantamount to consent), a citizen is considered consenting to donation if he has not expressed official disagreement during his lifetime or if a specific request for the non-placement of organs for donation is not made before death. There are also mixed systems. Some countries have established donor and/or non-donor registries to which citizens can contribute. In practice, there are differences in functioning as the family of the deceased still plays an important role in decision-making. Regardless of the system, there are general ethical principles, including a ban on financial benefits from bodies and protection of the rights of both donors and recipients, enshrined in international agreements.
To Europe The main source of organs suitable for use transplantations is donations from donors with a fixed one - death brain the number of such donations significantly exceeds the number of organ revenues from donors who have had a complete cardiac arrest, or from living donors.[1]
According to a 2017 European Commission study on the implementation and impact of the EU action plan for organ donation and transplantation in EU Member States, post-mortem donation serves as a source of receipt of organs for transplantation such as the kidneys, liver, heart, lungs, pancreas and small intestine.[2]
Chronicle
2025: Sentence to doctor in Germany - life sentence for intentional lethal injections to patients
The Aachen Land Court in Germany sentenced a 44-year-old nurse to life in prison for ten murders and 27 attempted murders. A medical professional has been found guilty of administering lethal injections to patients in a palliative unit. This became known on November 5, 2025.
According to Deutsches Ärzteblatt, the meetings on the case have been held since March 2025. Initially, the medical worker was tried for nine murders and 34 attempts, but the court established the fact of committing another murder. The crimes were found to be particularly serious, which, as a rule, excludes the chances of release after 15 years.
Doctor in Germany
The crimes were committed from December 2023 to May 2024 at a clinic in Würzelen near Aachen. The nurse worked in the palliative department, where seriously ill patients were in need of constant care and pain relief. It was these patients who fell victim to the medical professional.
The palliative unit is designed to help terminally ill patients. Specialists work here who must alleviate suffering and ensure a decent quality of life at the last stage. However, the convict used his position to commit crimes.
The convict gave patients powerful medical supplies without permission, the prosecution said. The motive was allegedly a desire to reduce the load during night shifts. Administration of the drugs led to rapid death of patients or critical deterioration of their condition.
The prosecution collected evidence that the nurse acted deliberately. He chose moments when no one watched his actions, and injected patients with drugs without medical indications. Doses of medicinal products significantly exceeded the permissible limits.
The defense insisted on the acquittal of the client. Lawyers argued that direct evidence of guilt was not enough. The defendant himself denied all charges and declared his innocence throughout the trial.[3]
2024: Largest pharmaceutical distributor attacked by ransomware virus
At the end of October 2024, the largest pharmaceutical distributor in Germany, AEP, reported a cyber attack on its IT infrastructure. As a result of the hacker invasion, the supply of medicines to thousands of pharmacies throughout the country was paralyzed. Read more here.
2023
Legalizing marijuana
On August 16, 2023, German authorities approved a bill to partially legalize the cultivation and use of marijuana. It is assumed that the initiative will solve a number of existing problems. Read more here.
20% of workers did not take sick leave for more than 12 months
2020
Investing 3 billion euros in digitalization of hospitals
At the end of September 2020, Minister health care Germany Jens Spahn announced that the state would invest 3 billion euros in modern emergency aid, digitalization and the creation of an IT security system for hospitals.
Funding for hospital system modernization projects will be provided by the Hospital Future Fund (KHZF) from the Health Fund Reserve. These funds will provide 70% of projects, and another 30% will be funded by federal lands/hospital operators, which will be able to attract another 1.3 billion euros.
Even though the German healthcare market is the second largest after the United States, Germany lags behind in digitization. The COVID-19 pandemic once again emphasized the importance of digital health care and the need to modernize the country's hospital system. Spahn has been openly supporting the digital transformation of healthcare since he took office in March 2018, promoting the use of medical apps and online consultations.
Hospital digitalization projects are presented in the Hospital Future Act, which was adopted by the Bundestag on September 18, 2020 and is expected to enter into force in October. Among other things, the projects present an electronic documentation system on care and treatment services, digital drug dispensing management, IT security measures and intersectoral telemedicine network structures. The funding can also be used to implement or improve telemedicine, robotics and high-tech medicine services.
Hospital operators will be able to start implementing projects from September and apply for funding by December 31, 2021. The digitalization status of hospitals will be assessed in June 2021 and 2023.[4]
Duration of guaranteed paid sick leave 6 months or more
2019
Health Care Cost Dynamics
High proportion of doctors over 55 years of age
Ambulance workers in Germany connected to telemedicine, and they became better at saving lives
At the end of May 2019, the experimental stage of the implementation of the telemedicine ambulance system, deployed in 2014 in the city of Aachen on the western border of Germany, was successfully completed. Telemedicine support for rescuers has improved services and reduced risks, and therefore will soon become a national program. Read more here.
2018:26% of women smoke tobacco
19th century
1260: Lübeck Leprosory Organisation
In 2025, a cemetery was discovered in Lübeck, where the inhabitants of the city leprosory found their last rest. Scientists have discovered several graves that formed part of the cemetery of the medieval hospital of St. Yorgen. It was a fairly large leprosory ー an institution that treated and, more importantly, isolated leprosy patients (leprosy).
The complex, located outside the defensive walls, appeared here after 1260, when Bishop Johann III ordered the organization of a specialized place for lepers at the request of the city council of Lübeck.
Leprosory was seriously damaged during the uprising of 1534, but then was restored in the early 1540s. It stood for almost a century until it was finally destroyed when the city fortifications were expanded and renewed.
The skeletons found show a real section of society of that time: sex and age indicators are distributed evenly, no particular group prevails. All this even gives scientists reason to believe that the hospital of St. Yorgen was intended for all seriously ill patients in general, and not just for lepers.
The bodies of all the deceased were oriented from west to east and rested at a depth of about 130 cm from the current surface of the earth. The characteristic remains of wood indicate that they were buried in thick tree trunks. The new discovery indicates that the size of the cemetery was noticeably larger than thought after past excavations in 2018.
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