Overview

• KMG Klinikum Nordbrandenburg will shut the Wittstock/Dosse hospital by the end of 2026 because it only houses two internal medicine specialties.
• Mayor Philipp Wacker has vowed to oppose the closure, warning of severe impacts on regional healthcare and infrastructure and organizing citizen forums.
• Health Minister Britta Müller insists on establishing an alternative local care offering, such as ambulatory or mobile units, to maintain service access after inpatient consolidation.
• The SPD/BSW coalition has pledged to preserve every hospital location, potentially through conversion into polyclinics, to safeguard rural health services.
• Cardiology and gastroenterology services from Wittstock are slated to be relocated to the Pritzwalk clinic under the reform’s specialization-driven consolidation.