Doskozil: Debate on Guest Patients Can Only Be Resolved with Financial Equalization

"There are the 15a agreements, there are contracts, and there is the fundamental financing of public services," therefore this question will not be answered between the three states of Vienna, Lower Austria, and Burgenland, referred Burgenland's Governor Hans Peter Doskozil (SPÖ) to the next negotiations on the financial equalization (FAG).

Debate on Guest Patients: Doskozil Refers to Investments in Burgenland

Burgenland recognized early on that the issue "will come to us" and therefore invested in quality to be able to care for Burgenland patients "at least statistically," said Doskozil on the sidelines of a press event with Andrea Kdolsky, who is taking over the management of the cancer center "Maggie's Centre" at the Oberwart Clinic.

The former health minister nominated by the ÖVP, who later also worked for the NEOS, also referred to the 15a agreements, through which "extra money" was given to Vienna. She opposed the idea that every small hospital department is highly specialized: "We need case numbers to be good, and therefore we need specialized structures where all patients come. Not every small regional hospital needs highly specialized departments. There are beacons, and everyone is admitted there."

For this, Vienna's Health Councillor Peter Hacker (SPÖ) received "much more money from the 15a agreement." The fact is that it is not working out now, but "poor hospital management is apparently" responsible for this: "Then he must improve the processes, this has nothing to do with guest patients," said Kdolsky.

(APA/Red)

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