After the medical association strongly criticized the new corona test strategy on Saturday, the SPÖ joined on Sunday. Like previous Medical Association president Thomas Szekeres and vice president Johannes Steinhart, SPÖ health spokesman Philip Kucher also criticized Sunday that there are no exceptions to the test limit of five PCR tests for resident physicians. The Vienna FPÖ criticized the Vienna testing strategy.
The federal government, “although it has been working on the ordinance for so long,” “forgot the in-house doctors and ordination staff and did not include them in the exception,” Kucher said on a broadcast.
Since the start of the pandemic, doctors and surgical staff have been “exposed to a huge risk of infection and can transmit the virus itself to debilitated people”. Not including this in the waiver is “disrespectful to the doctors and operating staff, negligent to their patients, and all in all just shameful,” Kucher said.
AK also criticizes the new testing strategy
The Chamber of Labor also criticized the new testing strategy on Sunday: “The new testing regulation forgot about the need to protect people at risk,” AK chairman Renate Anderl said in a broadcast. “It’s good and welcome that the federal government continues to fund the free test when I visit Grandma in a nursing home or hospital. But if I visit the Grandma, who belongs to a high-risk group, in her apartment or even at home for her care, she can worthy of no less protection!”
“Five PCR tests and five antigen tests are not nearly enough”
Anderl pointed out that spouses, life partners or children of at-risk individuals would incur “high costs for the tests” from now on. “Even parents of children who may not have been vaccinated and who have been exempted from attending kindergarten and being cared for at home because of previous illnesses also need to dig deep into their pockets to be able to continuously monitor their infection status.” Five PCR tests and five antigen tests would in no way be sufficient.
There would also be no regulations on whether and how often people should be tested who pose a particular risk of contamination due to, for example, a lot of customer contact. “The people who have held the position in the systemically important professions for two years now deserve more legal certainty.”
Nepp for revealing Lifebrain contract with Vienna
Viennese FPÖ leader Dominik Nepp, meanwhile, criticized the Viennese test system. He demanded an “immediate disclosure” of the contract between Lifebrain/Alles Gurgelt and the city of Vienna. “With pharmacies now also being forced to evaluate their corona tests through the Lifebrain laboratory, transparency must be immediately ensured in the interest of taxpayers,” he referred to the integration of pharmacies in the Vienna test system, which had become known on the day. before.
It was “unacceptable that SPÖ City Councilor for Health Peter Hacker has kept secret about the terms of the contract for more than a year”. “With Lifebrain’s current monopoly position,” it is clear “that millions are being awarded to a company close to the SPÖ,” he said.
Source: Krone
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