Medical Association criticizes new test strategy – salzburg.ORF.at
Coronavirus
The Salzburg Medical Association has sharply criticized the federal government’s new test strategy. Symptom-free people can no longer be tested free of charge by doctors with medicine cabinets. That means mainly in relation to a protected.
The doctors criticize that they only received the new regulation from the Ministry of Health, which has been in force since Friday, the day before it came into force. Namely just yesterday Thursday, in the late afternoon. This is once again far too late, says the Vice President of the Salzburg Medical Association and spokesman for general practitioners Christoph Fürthauer.
Because the doctors would also have to prepare staff, material and probably, according to Fürthauer: “It is no longer acceptable – in a phase where you can very well predict the situation, we will be informed again before midnight what will apply the next day.”
Poor position for rural regions
The fact that symptom-free patients can no longer be tested free of charge by doctors with house pharmacies is seen by the doctors as worse off in rural regions, according to doctors’ representative Fürthauer: “These are the more remote regions in our federal state but also in other federal states. That people can no longer take a smear in their place so that they can go to the retirement home, for example, or prepare for a visit to the hospital during the day .