Episode 2 of our major series on the Viennese healthcare system focuses on waiting times in operating rooms and guest patients. More and more Lower Austrians feel like second-class patients in Vienna. The former Viennese Susanne Pitschko also discovered this since she moved to Mauerbach. Side effects for the Viennese: Long waiting times for surgery. Plus: Where there are a particularly large number of guest patients in the hospital.
Costs for Vienna’s healthcare system are exploding. The city needs to save money. One of the adjustment screws: upper limits now apply for non-Vienna residents in the hospitals of the federal capital. Their numbers have increased significantly in recent years (see graph). But behind every rejected patient lies an individual fate.
Source: Krone
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