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Health revolution in sight: Greens demand vaccinations in pharmacies!
The Health Committee has accepted a green application to improve the care of people with disabilities while central reforms were postponed.
Health revolution in sight: Greens demand vaccinations in pharmacies!
There was significant progress in the health committee today for health care for people with disabilities. Ralph Schallmeiner, the health spokesman for the Greens, was pleased with the unanimous acceptance of an application to create a report on the health situation and care of this group of people. Schallmeiner emphasized that this was an important step to systematically record structural problems in the health system and to derive improvements, such as Ots reported.
Although this success is celebrated, four central requests from the Greens were postponed by the government coalition to improve the health system. This includes the introduction of active ingredients and the possibility of performing vaccinations in pharmacies. These measures could be implemented immediately and have direct positive effects on patient care, according to Schallmeiner. He criticized the adjoining and pointed out the insufficient support of the SPÖ and Neos in the past, especially when it comes to vaccination in pharmacies, which was again blocked by the medical association and the pharmaceutical industry, how courier. explained.
New attempt to vaccinate in pharmacies
The green companies another attempt to enable vaccinations in pharmacies. Schallmeiner presented a new legislative template in the health committee to increase the vaccination rate in Austria. The aim is to integrate over 1,400 pharmacies into the vaccination system and thus facilitate access to vaccination. Schallmeiner argued that this is not only an important preventive measure, but can also reduce the follow -up costs in the health system. In addition, it would be relieved, which could also shorten the queues of general practitioners.
Despite the good approaches, it remains to be seen whether the medical association again acts as a "spoiler". A timely decision in the National Council could already take place next week, whereby it is not excluded that the existing coalition is steep again. Schallmeiner hopes for more liberal access to this topic, while the previous line of the government excludes vaccination in pharmacies.