In Eisenerz in Styria, a man died of cardiac arrest on Saturday. Again there are allegations that the emergency doctor would have taken too long. Once again there is a demand for a separate emergency center in the region.
One would like to say that this is an isolated case. Unfortunately, the “Krone” keeps getting reports of tragic medical emergencies, like the one in Eisenerz last Saturday, that witnesses sent us.
Blocked apartment – implementation delayed
It is about a man in his sixties. An emergency call was made on suspicion of a heart attack. Because the man was in a closed apartment, it took a while for the fire brigade and police to get through to him. The Red Cross immediately began resuscitation measures. A rescue helicopter and an ambulance were also called.
However, the helicopter was unable to take off due to poor conditions, which are common at this time of year. And the emergency doctor finally needed almost 30 minutes before he arrived from Leoben.
Tragic: Help came too late for the man, he died. “Are we second-class people here in the region?” the witness to the incident asks in an interview with “Steirerkrone”.
‘Tragic case, but not outside the norm’
The state speaks of a “dramatic and tragic case, which, however, is not outside the norm in terms of the course of the operation,” says Klaus Pessenbacher, head of emergency and disaster medicine in the state of Styria: “The Red Cross was quickly on the scene. Even Leoben’s emergency doctor didn’t need an abnormally long time, about 30 minutes,” he explains.
Another call for their own emergency center
After this incident, however, there was another call for our own emergency base in the region: “In June last year, we sent a letter to the then governor and his deputy to draw attention to the situation,” says Bernhard Moser, mayor of the country
Nothing has improved since then. If the emergency had not been in Eisenerz, but with him in Landl, the emergency doctor would have taken much too long: “The solution cannot be to pretend that there are no problems. The country is responsible for the urgent medical care of its people,” he says.
Source: Krone
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