In the German city of Braunschweig on Friday afternoon some people expressed their solidarity with the medical workers by putting up banners on the metal fence of the hospital in Holwedestraße. The banners also highlighted the following demands:

- Solidarity with the workers!

- Personnel expansion and health protection instead of 12-hour shifts!

- No profits with health!

- Socialisation instead of privatisation!

The limit of what is bearable has long been exceeded

The action carried out by the "Friends of the Kurdish Freedom Movement" is one of many similar actions and statements that take place nationwide and internationally. A spokeswoman said: "With this action we want to show that there are people outside the health care system who do not want to stop at clapping - because clapping does not change anything. The closing of hospitals, staff cuts, lump-sum payments per case, poor health protection for employees, lousy pay, 12-hour shifts and many other unreasonable demands show that a health system organised according to profit logic is part of the problem. The pandemic only makes clear here what workers were already shouting in the face of politics, the media and society before Covid-19 appeared: the limit of what can be borne has long been exceeded. This must change. The constant repetition of the capitalist dogma 'the market rules this' is a slap in the face for all those who are forced to put their own health and life on the back burner.

Appeal to employees, patients and relatives

With this campaign, the initiative appealed to employees and patients and their families to join forces in a joint fight for a health care system that focuses on treatment, care and healing under reasonable working conditions; "This can only happen if the entire health care system is freed from the profit motive and is socialised.”