Medical treatment of refugees from Ukraine can be carried out, even if the legal and organizational requirements have not yet been created, they announced on Thursday in a joint broadcast. Even without a social security number, refugees from the Ukraine can now receive treatment, prescriptions, prescriptions and referrals from resident panel doctors with a passport and the available personal data. You can then apply for an e-card replacement document in the future.
“Now it’s time to help, quickly and easily. The Austrian health insurance company has set itself fast, innovative processes and will certainly not bother with bureaucracy in a humanitarian emergency such as the Ukraine crisis,” said ÖGK Director General Bernhard Wurzer. And ÖGK chairman Matthias Krenn reaffirmed the aim of social security to provide everyone with the best medical care. “In a situation like this, Europe must come together and show solidarity.”
“For us doctors, it goes without saying that we should help now that people are only a few hundred kilometers away from Austria and fear for their lives,” emphasized Thomas Szekeres, President of the Medical Association. Immediately after the start of the war, hundreds of doctors in Austria said they were willing to help, also free of charge, and the medical associations also immediately started aid measures, from collecting medicines to donating money. The vice president and chairman of the resident doctors, Johannes Steinhart, also underlined that it was now urgently necessary to provide help quickly. Among the doctors in private practice, the willingness to help is particularly great, “with the procedure that has now been decided, we can make a contribution to alleviating the current suffering a little.”
Source: Nachrichten
