Waiting times in Vienna: New cooperation drastically lowers operations!

Waiting times in Vienna: New cooperation drastically lowers operations!

Wien, Österreich - An alarming state in Vienna Healthcare: Waiting times for predictable knee operations achieve scandalous 420 days! This not only focuses on the quality of life of the patients, but is also denounced by the FPÖ as a further sign of the failure of the health city council Peter Hacker and the general director of the Vienna Health Association, Evelyn Kölldorfer-Leitgeb. According to FPÖ health spokesman Wolfgang Seidl, this development is "unbearable" and testifies to a system that operates on the sidelines of the collapse. Critics accuse the SPÖ to capture the failed structures, while patients have to wait for urgent treatments, which increases the need for reformatory measures.

new cooperation against long waiting times

In order to relieve the overloaded health area, there was now a plan of the Vienna city government to use privatized capacities. As reported by ORF Vienna , around 500 elective operations per year are to be carried out by cooperation with the Premiqamed clinics from April 2025. The public doctors will take on the interventions in private institutions. Attention is particularly paid to the departments of orthopedics and trauma surgery in order to reduce the long waiting times for interventions such as joint operations and arthroscopies. The patients who are the most affected are actively contacted and there are no costs for them.

The criticism of the current situation and the measures of the authorities is loud and clear. Seidl not only calls for reforms in the healthcare system, but also the discontinuation of Kölldorfer-Leitgeb, under the accusation that the continuing problems promise nothing good. The health sector in Vienna is under pressure to finally find effective solutions in order to improve the situation for the suffering, the affected patients, according to OTS . The pressure on the government to fix this health dilemma is higher than ever.