Sustainability Highlights Magazine 2025

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Promoting a healthy environment – and ensuring health in the future

People need a healthy environment. As a healthcare company, we operate in a unique space where there is a tension between wanting to do our best to minimize any potentially adverse impact on the environment and remembering never to lose sight of the strict requirements governing patient safety and hygiene. Our aim is to promote human health while continuing to reduce our environmental footprint.

To this end, we have introduced environmental management systems across our production sites and hospitals. These form the basis for us to improve step by step and make our activities more environmentally friendly. We can use the management systems to effect changes in various areas. By way of example, we are actively embracing the use of renewable energies to achieve our climate targets and looking closely at how we consume resources. This also includes careful use of water, an indispensable resource.1

We explain how we deal with these challenges in our focus topics encompassed under the planet dimension:

1 We report in detail on our climate and environmental targets – along with our approaches, measures, and progress – in the audited Sustainability Statement 2025.