Against the central hospital: Citizens' petition started in the Weilheim-Schongau district

Created: 06/08/2022, 18:00

By: Sebastian Tauchnitz, Elena Siegl

Citizens should be involved in the decision, agrees with former District Administrator Luitpold Braun, who put his signature on the list on Friday morning.

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The citizens' initiative to preserve the Schongau and Weilheim hospitals has started.

Numerous citizens took the opportunity to sign on Friday.

Schongau – On the way to the café, Peter Oskar Gagel stops by the booth of the action alliance.

The initiative announced that the citizens' initiative against the construction of a central hospital would start with a demonstration on Friday morning at Schongau's Marienplatz.

The focus is on collecting the required signatures, banners and posters serve more to draw people's attention to the campaign.

Lists are available at two tables.

Gagel had already supported the petition, as he told the local newspaper.

Now he puts his signature again for the preservation of the Schongau hospital.

There he was "born in 1951".

Although he is still mobile, it is important to him to have a hospital nearby.

A large crowd of people does not form, but people sign diligently.

There is a separate list for each municipality in the district, that's the way it is, explains Regina Haugg.

A total of 5500 signatures are required.

Once these are together, the lists are given to the respective municipality and checked.

If everything fits, it can come to a referendum.

Then every municipality has to open its polling station, according to Haugg.

Citizens' petition against the central hospital: this is how you can participate

The action alliance wants to collect the signatures for the citizens' initiative by September 8th.

The question is: "Are you in favor of not building a central hospital, but rather that the two hospitals in Schongau and Weilheim be operated in the long term with a guarantee of basic and standard care at least level 1 and emergency care seven days a week and 24 hours a day?" Day, and that the maternity ward will continue to operate at the Schongau location?” Unfortunately, due to time constraints, it will not be possible to set up a stand in every location, says Daniela Puzzovio.

In places that you don't visit, you want to send lists of signatures to all citizens.

Because of course this causes costs, a donation option has been set up (Schongau revitalizes eV, purpose: per hospital, IBAN: DE03 7209 0000 0001 2565 56,

The list, which can be found at www.pro-krankenhaus-sog.de, can also be printed out and sent to the action alliance.

All district citizens over the age of 18 with a German or EU passport can take part.

Citizens' petition against the central hospital: Many come specifically to sign

While some accidentally discover the status of the action alliance while shopping at the weekly market, others come specifically.

So did two well-known Schongauers: former District Administrator Luitpold Braun, for example.

"Because I want to involve the population," says Braun.

All district citizens should have a say.

Schongau's honorary citizen Fritz Holzhey and his wife Uschi also sign the petition.

Holzhey says he is concerned about how things have gone so far with commissioned reports, all of which point in the same direction.

"The hospital in Schongau must not go down in any way." In his estimation, a building on a greenfield site is also not financially viable.

Only with allocations that the citizen ultimately has to pay.

"I doubt whether there will be less costs for the district citizen with the central hospital."

Small demo (from left): Irmgard Schreiber-Buhl, Jürgen Wolf, Daniela Puzzovio, Monika Wunder, Walter Popp and Regina Haugg from the Action Alliance Pro Hospital Schongau.

Two citizens, who immediately signed, hold the banner of the initiative.

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Hospital Weilheim-Schongau GmbH: Gynecological and maternity ward should remain in Schongau

Meanwhile, the deputy managing director of the Weilheim-Schongau GmbH hospital, Claus Rauschmeier, has once again made it clear that both the gynecological and the maternity ward at the Schongau hospital should be retained.

There had been reports in the district council that the nursing staff had been given an ultimatum by the gyn at a works meeting to force them to move to Weilheim.

A gynecological station with 24 beds is to be opened there at the beginning of October.

When asked by the local newspaper, Rauschmeier described these reports as "nonsense": "We are making immense efforts to inspire nursing staff to work in our homes - with great success.

Such action would be absolutely counterproductive.”

He confirmed that there had been discussions with the employees.

Quite simply to ask whether individual colleagues are interested in moving to the new department in Weilheim.

The interest was definitely there because the jobs were attractive, says Rauschmeier.

There can be no question of coercion.

And not that the department, including the maternity ward, will be completely relocated to Weilheim.

"According to the current status of planning, everything in Schongau will remain as it is," says Rauschmeier.

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