Düsseldorf University Hospital is an important medical centre, treating patients from the Düsseldorf area and far beyond. 29 clinics and 30 institutes provide treatment to some 42,000 people on an inpatient basis every year. An additional 300,000 people visit the hospital for outpatient care. The hospital employs a total of 4200 medical sta, among them 800 doctors. An equally large number of technicians and administration sta are employed to look after the infrastructure at the 400,000 m2 site. This infrastructure includes a fossil-fuel combined heat and power plant to heat the hospital buildings. When lling the tanks or carrying out maintenance and repair work in the power plant, it is impossible to completely rule out the risk of spilling small amounts of ammable liquids like fuel oi

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