Overview
- Deutsche Stiftung Patientenschutz called for a legal requirement that roughly 16,000 nursing homes maintain at least 24 hours of emergency power.
- Chairman Eugen Brysch urged regulatory parity with hospitals and a billion-euro crisis-resilience fund for inpatient care.
- He asked the Berlin state parliament to set up a “Blackout” investigative committee to scrutinize grid vulnerabilities and the outage response.
- Brysch said high-capacity generators were sent too late during the early-January attack that left about 45,000 households and facilities in southwest Berlin without electricity for days.
- He criticized the federal health minister for failing to initiate protections and warned against buck-passing between federal and state authorities.