After months of staff turbulence at the Vienna Medical Association, Stefan Ferenci, the current vice president and chairman of the council of employed physicians, is set to resign. In any case, he announced by email a corresponding step for the next regular Curia meeting on February 20, 2024.
After months of staff turbulence at the Vienna Medical Association, Stefan Ferenci, currently vice president and chairman of the council of employed physicians, is set to resign. In any case, he announced by email a corresponding step for the next regular Curia meeting on February 20, 2024.
The move would automatically lose him the office of vice president, which is reserved for the president of the Curia, the chamber told the APA. With his announced resignation, he is following the wishes of his wife and children, according to the controversial doctor’s representative.
Wants to continue advocating for hospital doctors
However, he will continue to advocate for the interests of hospital doctors, according to the letter, a screenshot of which was published by ‘Dossier’ journalist Ashwien Sankholkar on X (formerly Twitter) (see tweet below).
In the letter, Ferenci also criticizes the fact that the interests of the “small group of statutory health insurers” have lately been too central to the Vienna Medical Association. Salaried doctors constitute 60 percent of the MPs and should be represented accordingly, he stressed.
In a clash with the Vienna City Councilor for Public Health
He hopes his successor will continue “this confident and, if necessary, combative path.” Recently, Ferenci repeatedly confronted Vienna’s public health councilor Peter Hacker (SPÖ) and tried to pressure him with surveys and strike announcements.
Between late April and late August, Ferenci also served as interim head of the Chamber of Vienna after the highly controversial, internally controversial head of the Medical Association, Johannes Steinhart, temporarily withdrew from the company for health reasons.
Turbulence at Wr. since spring. Medical Association
The Vienna Medical Association has been in turmoil since the spring due to allegations surrounding the purchasing platform Equip4Ordi (E4O), an outsourced subsidiary of the Curia of Resident Doctors. The Public Prosecution Service is investigating this case on suspicion of disloyalty, cronyism and serious fraud.
Source: Krone
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