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The Stasi hospital

In 1980 the clinic of the Ministry for State Security (MfS) was opened in East Berlin in the immediate vicinity of the government hospital. The employees of the State Security were treated here, from a higher rank also their relatives, as well as deserving former members of the secret police. The facility was universally equipped and had almost 300 beds. The patients were cared for by a total of 650 employees. Ten ambulances were available for this hospital only. The MfS clinic in Berlin was the largest "legendary" medical facility of the State Security. Officially, it was a hospital belonging to the GDR Council of Ministers. This was a "legend" often used by the secret police, which was not even wrong, since the MfS was formally subordinate to the Council of Ministers.

The house was secured with great effort and the staff was only hired after a thorough examination. After the fall of the Wall, the same fate befell the government hospital. It was affiliated with the Buch Clinic. In 2001 the now deficit Buch Clinic and the Stasi Hospital were sold by the Berlin Senate to the "Helios Kliniken", which undertook to build modern clinic buildings. These were finished in 2007. The hospital has been empty since then. There are currently plans for the building as well as the neighboring one  Demolish government hospital and build 3,000 apartments here. The structural condition is not as bad as that of the government hospital.

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