Urgent need to strengthen individual rural ordinations
Vienna (OTS) – According to media reports, state governor Johanna Mikl-Leitner wants the tariffs of general practitioners with health insurance contracts to be staggered. In the future, the amount of fees for medical services should increase with the distance from an urban area.
“In principle, we welcome every measure taken by politicians to ensure medical care for the population, and in Austria’s largest federal state in terms of area, we cannot afford to see rural doctors dying,” says Dr. Harald Schlögel, President of the Medical Association for Lower Austria. also dr Max Wudy, Vice-President of the Medical Association for Lower Austria and Chairman of the Board of Doctors, is pleased with Mikl-Leitner’s initiative: “I see the intention to give more consideration to and to promote individual surgeries, because even the highest level of expansion with primary care units is positive are not sufficient to ensure the best possible medical care in remote areas.”
Lower Austrian Medical Association would like to contribute their expertise
According to the two officials of the Medical Association for Lower Austria, the EUR 100,000 starting bonus promised by the federal government for taking over a cash register surgery, for which no successor has been found for a long time, could also help to ‘recovery in medical care’ contribute to the country. Wudy: “The Lower Austrian medical profession is very keen to be able to optimally care for and treat the population. The Chamber of Physicians for Lower Austria would therefore like their expertise to be included in the design of the proposals for combating the shortage of doctors.” President Schlögel added: “We want to work together with politicians and the Austrian health insurance fund in the interests of the people in our federal state pull. It is important that, in the interests of the people, words are soon followed by deeds.”
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