The 73-year-old Steyr Friedrich Landerl has to wait six months for his business date and until then control his daily life with a kind of artificial bladder. Due to the increasing patient volume and the lack of staff, it is not faster.
The case is anything but pleasant, but Friedrich Landerl from New Steyle in Steyr (Upper Austria) has no problem talking about it openly. Since last week, the daily life of the 73-year-old is suddenly seriously limited: due to a urological problem, the pensioner got a belly blanket snake, almost a kind of artificial bladder that he now has to take with him. “I am excluded from the public. For example, I cannot go swimming, the summer has run for me,” says Landerl.
What angry the 73-year-old: the problem can be solved with a routine operation, but the Steyr hospital only has an appointment for the November procedure. “I have been walking around for half a year now, and nobody is interested. I feel like a second person,” says Landerl.
Increasing needs and lack of staff as reasons
The long waiting time is no exception: patients at the Pyhrn requirement -wurzen clinic in Steyr are waiting for an average of six months for a urological operation, according to the hospital’s request. This is due to two factors: “Due to an ever -old population, demand is increasing. Urology is the fastest growing department,” said the clinic. And there is still a lack of doctors and nurses in surgical and anesthesia.
However, the hospital emphasizes that acute cases ‘of course’ are previously coordinated. In any case, Landerl now wants to strive for a faster appointment in another hospital. The complaints about long waiting times have increased lately.
The “Krone” recently reported on a Linz (81), who had been waiting for an operation for a year with a hernia. He paid 6,000 euros and immediately came under a knife in a private hospital. “Thank goodness I am hurt now, but I no longer have any money in his pocket,” he summarizes his medical history to the “Kroon”.
Source: Krone
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