Remote region – Last salvation: Emergency doctors are now moving for free!

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An unusual alliance of volunteers starts an emergency care for residents in the remote styric Eisenstrasse region. After years of discussion you don’t want to wait any longer for politics, there were plenty of missions.

The alarm went at 6.14 am on Sunday morning, at 6:24 am. The rescue team was on site. The report did not mean something good: serious work accident in the Drive -Water Stollen of the composite power plant in Farmlau. “We first had to fight against a good kilometer through knee -deep water to get to the patient,” says Emergency doctor Thomas Road separator. An employee suffered light, another serious injury.

The doctor is one of the about a dozen helpers who register for another seven weekends. On your own initiative you have equipped a Red Cross with the necessary medication, the basis has been increased in Großreifling in the heart of the styric requirement tract, the support comes from the Presidium in Graz.

Hope for bike
“The next floor -based emergency doctor is located in Waidhofen in Lower Austria or in Rottenmann and Leoben,” says Oliver Puntigam from Graz. “So far away.”

The 23-year-old emergency paramedician did his civil service on the Red Cross in Altenmarkt in 2019. “I witnessed how difficult it is to help in this remote region on time and how you can feel alone.” That is why he was immediately enthusiastic about the idea of ​​building the 21st styric emergency base himself. His hope: “That the country will follow.”

Years of debates have been emptied so far
For almost five years, the pension gap in the Obertyrian region discussed, entirely with the removal of the residents. “We are talking about an outdated population in an extremely exposed region,” emphasizes Gerti Schnabel from Eenenz.

The pharmacist is also part of the broad shoulder closure: “People feel alone, especially during the weekend and at night. According to us, we are grateful for any form of improvement.”

Source: Krone

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