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The OÖN report on Saturday made waves about them “overload indicator”who is a primary care doctor of “internal medicine 2” of the Pyhrn-Eisenwurzen Clinic in Steyr at the beginning of August. Accordingly, the burden on his colleagues from additional emergency room services and care services for patients from other hospitals is already so great that it “to serious mental and physical impairments of the employees” come
It had previously become known that the lung department there was in emergency operation until the end of August.
Despite vacation time “medical care at a very high level” to maintain, be “a great achievement by our doctors”says the President of the Medical Association, Peter Niedermoser, and opens the door “Solutions for everyone involved”.
The Chamber and the Federal Curia of employed doctors warned accordingly “15 years before the current staff shortage”also says Harald Mayer, federal curia chairman and chairman of the employed doctors in the Upper Austrian Medical Association. “We have repeatedly addressed the dramatic consequences of the wave of retirements.”
The tension between the increasing complexity of medicine and the working hours law “no secret even then” been, emphasizes Mayer. However, the law in Upper Austria “well respected”.
“keep graduates in the country”
Nevertheless be now “rapid action is required in the escalating situation”says Niedermoser. “With the creation of a medical university, which also cost a lot of money, we have a good basis in Upper Austria. But it is about keeping the young graduates in our federal state”, says the President of the Chamber. The young doctors are drawn there “where the technical environment and the framework conditions of the workplace are very suitable”. This also applies to students in the clinical-practical year (KPJ). Here it is needed in Upper Austria “a financial adjustment in the KPJ to the other federal states”demands Niedermoser.
The federal government must also create the framework so that doctors can continue to work in retirement without financial losses. The expansion of the established area is the basis for relieving the burden on the hospitals, the Austrian health insurance company (ÖGK) has to do this “finally accept their responsibility”.
Source: Nachrichten
