Tamsweg: maternity ward closes for nine days
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The department for gynecology and obstetrics at the state clinic in Tamsweg (Lungau) has to be closed for nine days. Reasons are a delayed approbation of the new primary and the hospital working time law.
The station must be temporarily closed from Wednesday, April 13, 7 a.m. to Friday, April 22, 7 a.m., as the Salzburg state clinics announced in a press release on Monday.
With Athanasios Alimisis there is a designated primary for the department, who previously worked in Germany. However, the transfer to the Austrian list of doctors has been delayed, so that he is not yet allowed to practice in Austria. The Salzburg state clinics assume that this formal act can be completed positively in the next few weeks.
Wolfgang Fürweger, spokesman for the Salzburg State Clinics says: “We have been able to win a very competent doctor as the new primary. He last worked for Bayern. As a state hospital, we could not have expected that as an EU citizen who wrote in Germany, he would not be allowed to work here. Approval has been delayed.” The two doctors who work on the ward could not work around the clock.
Personal situation tense
The other two specialists in the Department of Gynecology and Obstetrics at the Tamsweg State Clinic cannot keep the department running 24/7 due to the Hospital Working Hours Act. Due to the corona pandemic and the Hospitals Working Hours Act, the personnel situation in the Hallein State Clinic and at the Salzburg University Hospital is still so tense that no doctors can be assigned to Tamsweg.
Emergency organizations and surrounding hospitals informed
The Salzburg state clinics are also informing the Red Cross and the hospitals in the neighboring regions (Pongau, Styria and Carinthia) of the temporary ban so that these facilities can prepare for any additional transports or births. Last year, 177 children were born in the Tamsweg State Clinic.