Wednesday, November 19, 2008

Clinic doctors protesting against the assembly line medicine

Hospital doctors, nurses and caregivers have in a nationwide Protesttag more money for the clinics asked. The chairman of the Marburger Bund doctors union, Rudolf Henke, warned the face of empty boxes at "assembly line medicine". The president of the German Hospital Association, Rudolf Kösters, stressed in the clinics would be more jobs at stake than in the auto industry.

At high noon to clock gathered after a call of the Action Alliance "rescue the hospitals' clinics in many of the employees' active 'lunch break. According to estimates by the trade union Ver.di involved several tens of thousands of hospital staff in clinics around 1000 in the actions. They urged the Bundestag to by the federal government's relief package for the hospital significantly increased.

In Hamburg, protesting doctors and nurses, among other things before the Asklepios Clinic Barmbek. Fokko Haseborg ter, Chairman of the Hamburg Hospital Association and chief of Albertinen, said: "The money is available to hospitals under current law to them and is now the second time be withdrawn." The hospitals would be depressed by the health insurance "in the corner and concentrated bargaining power forced their performance in value to sell."

Doris Pfeiffer from the top of the statutory health insurance association said on the other hand: "Today, per night more than 50 000 people in hospital less than ten years ago. This must also be at the hospitals lead to change."

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