The union no longer wants to tolerate the misery in hospitals and is calling for a storm of protests from members
The jug goes to the well until it breaks – that’s how you should imagine the political approach to health care. While the Corona crisis exposed the countless problems, now efforts are being made to prevent the system from collapsing with speech bubbles and tired announcements.
The unions should have “watched” the evil game long enough and are planning a loud protest on the big stage: “The high workload and the lack of medical and nursing staff in Austria have led to the fact that many more beds are currently blocked than there are total in the Viennese AKH!
These national figures are extremely worrying, also because patient care can no longer be guaranteed at the high level that we are used to,” warns Reinhard Waldhoer, chairman of the GÖD health union, concerned. Together with his colleagues, he now calls on Health Minister Johannes Rauch (Greens) to “immediately convene a national hospital summit”.
Loud protest march in front of the Ministry of Health
With whistles, banners and noise, hundreds of doctors, nurses and union members marched outside the doors of the Ministry of Health in the federal capital yesterday, but they also received no satisfactory answer. Yesterday, Minister Rauch declared that the care reform presented exactly one year ago was a “successful first step”. All 20 measures such as salary increases, changes in training and improvements for dependents and family members – with a budget of one billion euros – have been implemented. It doesn’t need a health summit, they say.
For the industry, however, the investments were only the famous drop in the ocean. This is also confirmed by Edgar Martin, chairman of main group II in the “younion”: “With more than 2,800 missing nursing staff and the knowledge of the additional need, we speak of an emergency. Another blah blah blah without solutions is unacceptable. And now would have been the right time for a summit, as financial settlement negotiations are currently underway. The minister and provincial governors must show their colors: do they want a functioning health system or catastrophic conditions like in Britain?”
Few offspring also due to bad images?
In any case, the staff is so heavily burdened by the workload that the tasks of practical training on location cannot be performed properly, according to the experts. The bad image of a profession that is left alone with its problems is also not a very inviting image. This probably also corresponds to the general impression of the domestic health system and responsible politics. Joseph Poyer
Source: Krone
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