Actually, Naghme Kamaleyan-SchmiedVice President and Chairwoman of the Association of General Practitioners in the Medical Association of Vienna, will be speaking at a press conference on Tuesday about a new “pop-up pilot project” to close the gaps in basic medical care. But because this idea is still a long way from being a concrete offer, the media representatives’ interest focused on a current threat.
And then it broke out of the general practitioner, who was in Wien-Floridsdorf an ordination, says: “This is a tragedy in my ordination.” Crownbut also Flu and whooping cough would “overwhelm us this winter”.
Die Wastewater measurements would be “disastrous”, the number of infections in the practice is rising: “To be honest, I am afraid of the next few months.”
Again and again she has to sick patients send them home empty-handed, “because the costs of a Covid testing cannot afford it”. Without a positive test result, however, she as a doctor is not allowed to administer the expensive medication (“1300 to 1400 euros”) according to the health insurance contract.
Free trial again?
Andreas HussChairman of the Austrian Health Insurance Fundtook note of the dramatic description of the Viennese doctor sitting next to her on the podium – and then promised that the Covid testing will soon be free again should be, at least for Risk patients.
When asked when exactly this could happen, Russ explained: “Discussions with the Medical Association are ongoing. I hope that in the next few days will be ready.” However, this hope is not entirely new.
