Carinthia is struggling with a shortage of doctors: lack of on-call services during the holidays!

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Criticism of primary care in Carinthia during the holidays: doctors are missing, health projects are on the brink of extinction.

Kritik an der hausärztlichen Versorgung in Kärnten während der Feiertage: Ärzte fehlen, Gesundheitsprojekte vor dem Aus.
Criticism of primary care in Carinthia during the holidays: doctors are missing, health projects are on the brink of extinction.

Carinthia is struggling with a shortage of doctors: lack of on-call services during the holidays!

The “Gesundheitsland Kärnten” association will be dissolved at the end of the year, which will have dramatic consequences for 63 employees who will not be taken on by the state. This was confirmed by the state government after complaints about a lack of transparency and inefficient structures were loud. Healthy schools and communities should continue to be supported, but it is unclear how this will happen without the support of the dissolved association 5min.at reported.

The committee chairman Gerhard Köfer from Team Carinthia is relieved about the closure of the club and explains that this is a necessary step to close a “negative and not very transparent chapter in the state administration”. Criticisms from the Court of Auditors, such as the inadequate handling of personnel policy and the creation of parallel structures in the state service, accelerated this end. In addition, the association was used as a “personnel pool for fighting pandemics” during the pandemic, but it cost around 2.8 million euros annually and would have been beneficial without filling existing positions in the country, as Köfer points out.

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