In the city’s clinics doctors and nursing staff are increasingly threatened by patients and their companions, the Hannoversche Allgemeine reported. Sometimes staff members are even physically attacked.
Hannover on the River Leine, is the capital and largest city of the German state of Lower Saxony. It is headquarters for several Protestant organizations, including the World Communion of Reformed Churches, the Evangelical Church in Germany, the Reformed Alliance, the United Evangelical Lutheran Church of Germany, and the Independent Evangelical-Lutheran Church.
More and more guards are being used in emergency rooms. In Hanover’s Nordstadt hospital it was necessary to take such measures in order to “create a safe working atmosphere for the employees”.
Doctors and nurses can now concentrate on doing their jobs again, it said.
But the report did not give details on the persons threatening the clinic staff. Readers are left to wonder what the profiles of the perpetrators or offenders groups are.
Despite this growing problem of hospital security, Lower Saxony’s Interior Minister Boris Pistorius at the presentation of the latest crime statistics stated: “There were fewer crimes in 2017”.
Germany remains the main destination for asylum seekers. Almost every third application (30.5 percent) in the EU was made in Germany in 2017, according to the latest figures from the EU statistics office Eurostat, the newspapers of the Funke media group reported.
With some 198 000 applications, the country is ahead of Italy (126 000), France (91 000) and Greece (57 000). In 2016, almost 60 percent of all asylum applications in the EU were made in Germany.
Notable, there were hardly any applications by migrants in Eastern Europe.
Only a few immigrants ended up in Eastern European countries. Slovakia counted 150, Estonia 180 and Latvia 355 initial applications, while some 2 300 people were seeking asylum in Hungary and around 3 000 in Poland.
Compared to 2016, the total number of applications in the European Union decreased by almost half last year. Almost 650 000 people applied for asylum in 2017. In 2016, it had been around 1.2 million.
A leaked report from Chancellor Angela Merkel’s government said Germany would need to take in 12 million migrants over the next four decades to keep Germany’s population size stable.
The exploding figures unearthed by the German daily, the Rheinische Post will further burden German voters who are already reeling after almost 2.2 million migrants flooded into the country in 2015 alone.
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