How sick is the health system in Styria? An emergency doctor is now unpacking grievances: “It could affect anyone!”
You would rather not hear such a sentence, and yet a voice rose in the debate about medical care: “It can happen to anyone, because a qualified rescue service with well-trained personnel and the right equipment does not exist in Styria.” a Red Cross employee proposes an alarm via open letter. He also discusses the death of a 50-year-old patient in Liezen who died due to a lack of adequate care.
Another patient recently lost his life on his rescue stretcher at the hospital because an emergency doctor was no longer available. For a long time there would always be problems to fill the emergency medical services in the districts. “Even if emergency rooms are manned, the areas of application for an emergency physician’s vehicle are often very large, and therefore an emergency physician cannot move to every patient who needs emergency medical care,” the paramedic reports.
Graz and surroundings: Often only two emergency vehicles
He also mentions Graz as an example, where the districts of Graz and the vicinity of Graz have to be covered with two ambulance cars. “In addition, there are often only paramedics in the jumbos in Graz.”
A large part of the trips of the Styrian Red Cross are also patient transports. “Therefore, rescue equipment is not available for surgery for a long time and patients have to wait. This is especially important at night, when even fewer vehicles are occupied.”
Especially dramatic in rural areas
If volunteers are not found for a service, entire neighborhoods often remain unoccupied. The situation is especially dramatic in rural areas. “At night there is often no ambulance between Rottenmann, Leoben and Judenburg.” He fears that the problems with the availability of emergency doctors can hardly be solved, because regions with a low frequency of calling are too unattractive and doctors also use emergency services. services in their spare time.
SPÖ MP Mario Lindner is putting pressure on state politics: the restructuring of the emergency department is at the root of the dilemma. Since then, doctors from the Kages were only available on weekdays.
Source: Krone
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