On medical advice, patients in Berlin make the pilgrimage to cooling operations with blankets and thick socks. Because the treating doctors often have to turn off the heating completely because of the high electricity costs. Here too, the doctors wail under the exploding, high energy costs – now there is even a risk that the devices will be switched off.
When it comes to cold ordinations, the president of the Medical Association, Johannes Steinhart, is boiling with rage. Certainly if our doctors are advised to lower the temperature in the treatment rooms to 19 degrees as a cost-saving measure. “It doesn’t work that way. Because sometimes the patients have to undress for examinations and colds don’t go well with illness,” Steinhart scolded.
A look at German practices shows what to expect. Because there, inflation has reached such dramatic proportions that, in addition to the threat of shutting down devices, leading to longer wait times, doctors have to turn down the heating in their “Ordis”. Doctor’s prescription for frostbite: Patients should bring thick socks and blankets for treatment!
Emergency Calls of Ordinations
“It’s not that drastic in Austria yet,” says Steinhart. Still, he fears an impending “heating bill collapse” among colleagues at home. Meanwhile, the emergency calls reach him from the practices, according to which energy costs have increased by 700 (!) percent compared to the previous year. Vice President Edgar Wutscher also sounds the alarm: “The prices hit us with full force!”
What annoys the chamber management: Doctors as so-called freelancers are not entitled to an energy cost subsidy! Steinhart announced tough negotiations with politicians for this week.
Source: Krone
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