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The general practitioner emergency service (HÄND) is being restricted in Upper Austria, as reported, in the Braunau district it is only available until 11 p.m. and no longer all night. A large part of the districts will adopt this regulation in July. The reason is the shortage of doctors.
In Wels, after gaps around the Christmas holidays, when night services could not be manned, the emergency medical service in Wels is “almost continuously manned at the usual times this year at least,” says health officer and Deputy Mayor Klaus Schinninger (SP). District medical representative Isabelle Natorski told him that. After the reorganization, the system is working again almost completely for the time being. HÄND can be reached on weekdays from 2 p.m. and on weekends around the clock on Tel. 141. The service is intended for urgent health concerns that require treatment by a general practitioner and cannot wait for their own general practitioner to return. For general questions about complaints or sudden symptoms, the Austria-wide health advice service is available on tel. 1450 around the clock, seven days a week.
Schinninger says the health summit held in Wels is beginning to bear fruit. Above all, it is about ensuring the care of the Wels population by general practitioners and specialists with health insurance contracts in the coming years. “Suggested solutions are on the table for the general lack of physicians with health insurance contracts. Implementing them is a matter for the health insurance company and the medical association. We as a city provide every possible support.”
Source: Nachrichten
