It is “a strange test” – Vienna City Councilor Peter Hacker (SPÖ) criticized the admission process for medical studies in the city council on Wednesday, pointing out that more places for students were needed.
According to Hacker, the federal government is now being called upon to create better conditions for those who are willing to do so. Because the interest is there, he said.
“The absurd and I think it is also embarrassing for the Republic is that every year we frustrate and send away more than 10,000 young people because we do not let them pass a strange test.”
Measures are needed to combat the shortage of doctors
“The fact that we have a shortage of doctors is not a new finding,” he said during question time. “We have too few doctors in training, we have too few medical students at universities.” He sincerely hopes that the federal government will take action here quickly. Something ‘radical’ has to change, according to Hacker.
“I don’t understand at all how it is that all the health politicians say we need more training at universities, but that just doesn’t happen.
It’s a bit of a mystery to me,” he admitted. It is by no means a subject for which there are no interested parties. If nothing changes here, there will remain too few staff.
A thought process at universities is necessary
In any case, people who want to work in public health care should be able to study, Hacker demanded. “But we’re not doing that at the moment.”
A reflection process should take place in universities about which people should be accepted and with what objectives, he demanded.
Source: Krone
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