Given a recent experience of a relative of mine with the German medical system, in terms of care for patients hospitalized, I would like to hear, how the quality of care and the number of staff is in your country.
A relative of mine has recently been hospitalized multiple times and for a couple of weeks. This happened in Germany.
Now I know, that we have some issues in the system, but the experience in real life was way worse.
There was one nurse during nights, for a ward of 25 rooms (so max. 75 people). One patient had an issue during the night, so she had to clean him up. Took 25 minutes and during that time, she was constantly getting alarms from the other rooms, but kept ignoring them. Also, for more than 1 hour, two bowls with poop were standing around in the hallway, as she was busy with other patients.
Even during the day, they were only 3 nurses on this ward. They were always in stress, constantly running. And no, they were not temporarily short staffed. I asked, and it’s the usual situation they experience.
To be clear: no blame for the nurse! Just for the system, that treats its people like that.