Fight for care at home: Salzburg lets cross -sectional paralyzed down!

Fight for care at home: Salzburg lets cross -sectional paralyzed down!

shocking twists in the case of two cross-sectional men reveal blatant grievances in the healthcare system of Salzburg: the state of Salzburg refuses to finance the necessary 24-hour intensive care at home. Instead, both men threaten to turn away from their familiar environment and the instructions in nursing homes. This reported ots.at . Wolfgang A., 70 years old and paralyzed from the neck due to a serious wheel accident, is faced with the brutal decision to be deported to the Hallwang retirement home. His applications for assumption of costs have so far remained unanswered, and communication with the public prosecutor was ignored. The prosecutor Bernhard Achitz emphasized that the country and social security are responsible for domestic care and referred to the case law of the Supreme Court (OGH).

Another case is concerned with the public prosecutor: Günter S., 64 years, which has been in the same predicament since an accident in 2010, also urgently needs intensive care. After 13 years of support, mostly from the disability pension, he suddenly no longer gets help from the state of Salzburg. While he is currently in inpatient treatment in the Hamburg paraplegated center, he is waiting to be able to go back to his family in Wagrain. "I've been waiting for three months. Please help me!" He appeals desperately. The public prosecutor's office regularly thanked the institutions who take care of his care and would like to increase the pressure on the country to secure the urgently needed intensive care, as Volksanwaltung.

The obligation to supply

ACHITZ makes it unequivocally clear: The right to care in your own home must not be ignored. On the ORF stage for the debate about "Citizens' Property", he demanded that the country and health insurance companies finally agree on the distribution of costs after they first wanted to push the patients into inpatient care. These scandalous events throw a bright light on the current solutions in the area of responsibility of the country and social security and show that affected families not only stay at high costs, but also on incomprehension and ignorance of those who are responsible for their care.