It was a chance find, was, because burglars have gained access to a disused hospital building in book (Berlin-Pankow), which once belonged to the state security. Now the Helios Klinikum Berlin-Buch in major newspaper ads on Wednesday in the daily mirror to the Public.
What had happened? After the break-in, the since 2007, the disused building was on 15. January studied. The so-called “forest house” is currently one of the Berlin real estate management GmbH (BIM). In the investigation of the building in the hobrechtsfelder Avenue after the burglary, the managers met with the Cabinet on an old records – patient files were not available. It is still unclear whether the files were stolen. It is, according to the Berlin data protection Maja Smoltczyk officer to documents of 25,000 people.
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Helios points to the affected patients now is especially vigilant. In the notice it is said: “All Concerned are requested to be particularly attentive to the unexpected note of information provided by third parties, which could stand in connection with the relevant Hospital treatment and to inform us about the corresponding abnormalities.”
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In the building, which once housed the hospital of the Ministry for state security (MfS). There, the Stasi employees and agents, were treated, but also the security forces of African DDR-friends state. In 2011, the Helios Klinikum Berlin-Buch, had taken over the building in 2007, it was vacated. The patient records appear to be overlooked and left behind.
According to information from the clinic-a company, the documents of orthopaedic and accident surgery relate to the anaesthetic documentation and then in the hospital employees. “Despite the carefully measures, seems not to have been taken at the Handover of the object to the BIM in 2007, the local storage of the documents note,” according to Helios now.
This will display the Helios Klinikum Berlin-Buch, published on Wednesday in the daily mirror.Photo: axf
According to the current state and the information of the company, the found files three-OP-books. The operations of some 6,000 patients are listed, which have been operated on in the years 1962 to 1979, in the forest house. In addition, two books rum layers to files documentation from the years 1967 to 1976 in the building. Add to this the 27 files folders with photo copy of OP-logs from the years 1991 to 1999.
It is not according to the Helios clinic, however to complete patient files. In the documents, only surgical procedures are listed, with names and dates of birth of the patient, as well as the diagnoses and the treating Physicians. The documents were also “unauthorized third parties”. In addition, can not be excluded “that the documents were stolen out of the object and other unauthorized third parties access to the documents could take”.
in conjunction with the BIM, the hospital had taken all “to backup the relevant documents necessary measures”. Also, the police had been informed, the BIM will file a report. In addition, the incident of Berlin had been reported to the data protection officer, Smoltczyk. The documents had been transferred in coordination with Smoltczyk for the time being, in the archive of the Helios clinic book. Now is determined because of a suspicion of a breach of data protection.
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