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The leadership of the medical association demands an apology from Anschober.
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Rudolf Anschober has come under fire for his testimony about medical practices that were shut down during the crown pandemic. The Medical Association places a public display of pharmacists and doctors in it.
Statements in a video message from Health Minister Rudolf Anschober drew criticism from the Lower Austrian Medical Association on Friday.
The Green politician had thanked the pharmacists for their commitment and pointed out that during the closure “many ordinations were closed or only had reduced opening hours.” To President Christoph Reisner it seemed an affront.
Criticism of Anschober for playing with doctors and pharmacists
In recent weeks and months, pharmacies “significantly improved the Austrians’ sense of security,” secured the supply situation, and thus “contributed to the stabilization of the overall situation,” Anschober said in a video posted on Youtube.
Reisner saw in this a public display of doctors and pharmacists. “During the confinement, the resident doctors had opened their orders to more than 90 percent. In the area of general medicine, the quota was even higher,” the president of the Lower Austrian Medical Association said in a broadcast.
Many practices also open during crown lock
During the most difficult months of the pandemic, doctors ensured medical care in Lower Austria “despite the fact that there was hardly any protective material”. Even the vacations of the doctors in charge of the ordination that had already been denounced to the Chamber were withdrawn to keep the consultations open to patients.
In relation to Covid-19, 87 ordinations in the state should have been officially segregated. “A colleague even paid for his commitment to his life,” Reisner said, recalling the death in crown of a Lower Austrian family doctor in early April.
The leadership of the medical association also criticizes Anschober
According to the Lower Austrian Medical Association, ÖAK President Thomas Szekeres and his Vice President Johannes Steinhart have also criticized Rudolf Anschober for his testimony about medical practices that were closed during the pandemic. “That’s just not right and you can prove that with numbers,” Szekeres said.
According to social security data, 90 percent of all cash registers would have been kept open. Anschober’s statements to the contrary are “incorrect.” His Vice President Steinhart, who is also the President of the Federal Curia for Resident Physicians, took a similar line: Resident physicians were always there as the first point of contact for their patients.
“Minister Anschober must understand the outrage aroused in the medical profession in this context, if this service, which was performed with the highest personal commitment, is in fact ignored,” Steinhart says: “An apology seems appropriate to us. The commitment of physicians must be respected and honored. “
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