At the beginning of the year, Governor Johanna Mikl-Leitner increased the pressure on Vienna in the case of guest patients and announced the filing of a lawsuit against the federal capital. Because numerous compatriots contacted the Lower Austrian patient advocate after calling. “We should return to a common path throughout Austria. It cannot be the case that foreign citizens with a Viennese registration certificate, who may have never paid into the system, are cared for in Vienna hospitals and Lower Austrians are not, just because they are Lower Austrians. Many compatriots have contacted our patient advocate, some of whom had been preparing for months for planned surgery appointments, which were then canceled at short notice. This unnecessarily prolonged their suffering,” said Mikl-Leitner. The state of Lower Austria will file a lawsuit for one of these rejected patients. “This lawsuit is currently being prepared and will be filed in the next few weeks.”
