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> at the same time we have parts of the city where Doctors without Borders opened a station because the situation is catastrophic

I can't find any reference to this station online (neither operated nor planned) and have never heard of anything remotely close (I work in the field). On the contrary, currently capacity is being reduced in the region due to permanently vacant hospital beds.

There are some stations for people without health insurance (usually undocumented people that fear detection). The nearest one should be in Duisburg operated by Malteser. Note that those are not because of low capacity but due to documentation requirements at regular hospitals.

> They are very good at removing many from the stats.

This is done by each and every single country, Germany is nothing special here. Very detailed numbers of all those groups usually "excluded" from the main headline statistic are published along with it. There is nothing being hidden. There are also ILO unemployment statistics calculated with the same methodology worldwide, they too look very good (and improving).



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