The newly founded platform #besserbehandelt.at is using a campaign to draw attention to deficiencies in the health care of children and young people. It is becoming increasingly difficult for families to find a pediatrician with a health insurance contract.
The initiator of the platform is Political Pediatric Medicine, an association of pediatricians and other professional groups involved in the field of children and young people.
In Lower Austria, one in four pediatrician positions is vacant, and in Upper Austria, one in six. In some districts, there are no pediatricians with a health insurance contract, meaning that parents have to travel long distances to get to them. In Vienna, more than half (54 percent) of pediatricians with health insurance are unable to accept new patients due to capacity constraints.
There is still a massive shortage of free diagnostic and therapy places for children with chronic illnesses or developmental delays.
The Medical Association of Vienna supported the platform’s demands in a press release. “In the area of child and adolescent psychiatry in Vienna, you wait an average of 90 days for an appointment with a health insurance company, which is intolerable and frightening,” said Chamber President Johannes Steinhart.
“It is certainly high time to make a joint effort to inform the general public about the massive deficits in the health care of our children and to ask for support for this important movement,” stressed pediatrician Sonja Gobara, chairwoman of the Political Pediatric Medicine Association.
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