“It is shocking that it had to happen,” comments Johannes Steinhart, President of the Austrian Medical Association and the Chamber for Doctors in Vienna, the protest measures of the resident doctors in Carinthia today. “Doctors do not take such measures lightly because they feel committed to their patients. But given the blockading of the Austrian health fund, due to their refusal to conduct serious negotiations, no other means remains no longer to point out the increasing unfairness in health insurance. Austrian Medical Association full of the Carinthian protest measures in recent years. However, all of these efforts have not fertilized anything in view of the inactivity of the ÖGK, so other measures would now have to be taken in the sense of the patients. “Otherwise it can be too late soon,” warns Steinhart.
In view of the recent statements of the ÖGK top and its emotionalization compared to the contract medical profession, the full solidarity with the Carinthian protest measures comes not only from the ÖÄK, but also from all other federal states. The other eight fans of the resident curia in the state medical associations also support today’s measures that include a limited ordination. “Our medicine is valuable and deserves the corresponding appreciation”, underline the resident Kurienblers Dietmar Bayer (Styria), Naghme Kamaleyan-Schmied (Vienna), Michael Schrefl (Burgenland), Momen Radi (Tirol), Christoph Fürthauer (Salzburg), Paul Niederberger (Upper Austria), Alexandra Rümmele-Waibel (Vorarlberg) and Dagmar Fedra-Machacek (Lower Austria).
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