On Wednesday, the UKH Lorenz Böhler employees carried out a works meeting with a kind of "warning strike". The hospital employees are defending themselves against the plan to close the hospital. The AUVA's approach to leave the employees completely in the dark are referred to as "affront".
Before the Lorenz Böhler entrance, around 50 employees, but also many residents of the district, mostly gathered, mostly older people. She all had brought the anger and resistance against the plans to close the hospital "overnight".
„ Fire protection is a dangerous thing " , the hospital's works council admitted. However, it is not important that the hospital is practically “overnight” due to an expert opinion, which is not even available to the employee. Labor law, they would have every right to be determined.
„ We don't know anything yet. Not where we get there, not even a guarantee that we can keep our work. ” reported an employee of the hospital. The attitude was referred to by a speaker as a provocation to the employees who were put into putting to "timely solutions". "Already in 2018 we stood here against the closure" , reported a speaker. He continued to argue that the hospital was needed and gave as an example that over 400 acute patients had been provided there in one day in February 2021.
It would be naive to blame the Auva gaps in knowledge or without having to plan. The years in particular show the hospital that the "chaos" goes according to plan: according to the plan that it should not be locked up again after the renovation. In this sense, further rallies are needed, the employees have to defend themselves and fight-to maintain the Lorenz-Böhler accident hospital!