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Köpping calls for emergency power supply for care homes too

Dresden 16. January 2026 08:24 Uhr 1 min
Köpping calls for emergency power supply for care homes too
Health Minister Petra Köpping (SPD) wants to tighten up the emergency plans for care facilities. (Archive image) / Photo: Michael Kappeler/dpa
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Nursing homes are currently less protected against power cuts than clinics. Health Minister Köpping wants to change this.

After the days-long power outage in Berlin, Saxony's Health Minister Petra Köpping (SPD) is also calling for a nationwide obligation to provide emergency power for nursing homes. Köpping told the Sächsische Zeitung and Leipziger Volkszeitung newspapers that while it was clear which generators could be used in which places in hospitals, this was not known for each individual facility in nursing homes. "We will look into how we can actually get an overview and sensitize care facilities to this issue."

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Nursing homes not a critical infrastructure

It is true that the law states that emergency power generators must also be provided as part of emergency plans. "But it is not an obligation," said Köpping. It would be necessary to consider whether this could be changed nationwide. Unlike hospitals, nursing homes are not legally considered critical infrastructure. However, the Federal Office of Civil Protection recommends that they should also be self-sufficient for at least 72 hours.

In many cases, around 100,000 people in 45,000 households and more than 2,000 businesses as well as hospitals and care homes were without power for days due to an arson attack on a cable bridge on January 3, allegedly carried out by left-wing extremists. Residents of several nursing homes had to be temporarily relocated to other facilities.

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Projekt Saxony Today : Mehrsprachigkeit von regionalen Nachrichten für in Sachsen lebende Menschen ohne deutsche Muttersprache. Projekt wird gefördert durch die Sächsische Landesanstalt für privaten Rundfunk und neue Medien. Diese Maßnahme wird mitfinanziert durch Steuermittel auf Grundlage des vom Sächsischen Landtag beschlossenen Haushaltes.