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Because service vehicles like the Red Cross and the Arbeiter-Samariter-Bund assist the 1450 health hotline, patients in Vienna hospitals sometimes wait ten hours for transportation home. Some even have to be hospitalized overnight.
The consequences of the personnel shortage to contain the coronavirus epidemic have also reached the emergency services in Vienna. Because the vehicles of the Red Cross, Green Cross, Arbeiter-Samariter-Bund and Johanniter belong to the team called Mobile Home Sampling and for this reason they visit suspicious cases that have called the 1450 hotline of their home to take samples and store them . To bring a laboratory, they are missing in ambulance transports.
Transportation home of people who are being treated on an outpatient basis in hospitals, for example after an accident or acute illness, is one of the central tasks of the emergency services. Older and frail people who cannot go home alone are affected not only, but especially. The “press” has documents indicating that there were waiting times of six to ten hours during which patients had to wait in hallways and entry areas.
