Moosburg without pediatrician: Practical future uncertain-parents are concerned!

Moosburg without pediatrician: Practical future uncertain-parents are concerned!

in Moosburg, a worrying health problem: Pediatrician Olaf Vorbeck closed his practice last Friday without finding a successor. Vorbeck has been looking after the small patients of the 20,000-inhabitant city for 19 years, now Moosburg remains without a pediatrician. Despite the hardworking efforts, including around 60 creative videos on Instagram to search for successors, no one who wanted to take over the practice was found. In the region, a similar development is threatened because other cities are affected by supply bottlenecks, such as the Merkur reported.

The situation is pouring: Parents in Moosburg now have to travel long distances to the next pediatricians in Erding, Freising or Landshut, whereby many practices are already working at their capacity limits. Dominik Ewald, pediatrician in Regensburg and chairman of the national association of child and adolescent doctors, draws attention to an alarming trend: Over 26 percent of pediatricians in Bavaria are over 60 years old, which could further tighten the situation in the coming years. Ewald warns that the bureaucracy is afraid of many potential successors and demands more flexible structures for further training positions in pediatrics to ensure that the care is sustainable.

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