In addition to a salary in nursing training, which is based on that of the police trainees, it demanded a doubling of the medical study places and an obligation for the graduates to work for some time in the public health service. The o. SP top candidate Birgit Gerstorfer insisted on a reorganization of the care financing.
During a visit to the new campus of the Linz Medical Faculty, staff representatives from the Kepler University Hospital presented a petition to the SP delegation around Rendi-Wagner and Gerstorfer. What is required are, among other things, an increase in the attractiveness of the training, a personnel key like the one that already exists in nursing homes for the hospital sector, the recruitment of 2,500 additional employees in the Upper Austrian hospitals, an improvement in the very low-paid on-call service (1.41 euros / hour, note .) and a heavy workers’ pension for nurses.
“Corona was a magnifying glass,” said Rendi-Wagner, which had exacerbated the situation, but the problems had been around for some time. The corona bonus decided by the federal government must finally be paid out, she demanded. In addition, she demanded a care billion, financed from a “millionaire or inheritance tax”. Gerstorfer criticized the “extremely old-fashioned” financing system of the social welfare associations, which goes back to Maria Theresa and which is too burdensome for the communities. Rendi-Wagner also wants “financing from a single pot”.
