Red alarm level: Group endangers Vienna's health system!

Red alarm level: Group endangers Vienna's health system!

The chamber for doctors in Vienna urges against the increasing groupization of the health sector in Austria. This development not only endangers the medical quality, but also the free medical profession based on the principle of treating patients independently and exclusively according to medical criteria. Johannes Steinhart, President of the Chamber, demands that politics take measures immediately to protect the health system from international investors. The recent reforms have opened the private companies door, which can lead to a worrying medical Situation, according to ots.at

In his book "Saved Saved", the health journalist Martin Rümmele addresses how the health system becomes uneconomical through savings constraints and operational logics. This approach means that the patients are faster through systems, which endangers the quality of the treatment. An alarming study by the Journal of the American Medical Association proves that hospitals and other health complications are increasingly occurring in privatized hospitals. According to Rümmele, the health system is hollowed out by the increasing influence of corporations and lobbyists. The Chamber for Doctors in Vienna calls for the new federal government to legally prevent any participations and sales of public institutions to private investors in order to ensure patient safety, such as aerztammer.at reported