With a resolution, the city council wants to send another signal that the Schongau hospital will be preserved.
A passage on Weilheim was deleted.
Schongau – Even before it was the turn of Regina Haugg (SPD), Stefan Konrad (SPD) and Daniela Puzzovio (ALS) to pass a “resolution on the preservation of the Schongau and Weilheim hospitals”, the topic worried the Schongau city council for discussions.
Kornelia Funke had requested on behalf of the CSU at the beginning of the meeting that the decision be postponed.
"We stand behind the hospital in Schongau," she said.
But there is currently a lot going on in this area, the law on hospital reform is not yet mature.
"We want to make a good and the right decision for our hospital," she explained.
The CSU fears that you will put obstacles in your own way if you are already too committed, for example to a level.
Haugg, Konrad and Puzzovio had suggested the following wording: The city council "calls on the district councilor to expand the hospital in Schongau into a level 2 house and the hospital in Weilheim into a level 1n house".
Alternatively, if no level 2 house can be implemented in Schongau, both houses could be operated equally in the 1n level, it was also stated in the application justification.
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"It is important that we as the city council now position ourselves for a sensible hospital"
Jiri Faltis (CSU) criticized that a resolution on hospital preservation had already been passed in October 2021.
Mayor Falk Sluyterman replied that the resolution does not decide anything, but sets a direction.
"It is important that we as the city council now position ourselves for a reasonable hospital - detached from the highly complex legal situation." The citizenry expects that. A clear signal is also necessary because the ÖDP faction of the district council recently submitted the application had to have the expansion of the Schongau hospital checked, which he welcomed.
The applicants, who are not only city councilors but also spokespersons for the pro-hospital action alliance, saw it that way.
It's about standing up for the hospital and its employees, clearly standing behind the location, explained Stefan Konrad - after all, the district administrator had already brought the closure into play.
The hospital is an important employer and healthcare is an important economic location factor.
In addition, around 35,000 people in the district voted in favor of maintaining both hospitals in the referendum.
“We will always be dependent on federal, state and district politics.
But we have to set an example now.” It is a noble thought to hold back until a decision has been made at federal level – but the district council is not holding back either.
Only spongy answer from the Federal Minister of Health
The CSU finally withdrew the request for an adjournment.
However, Jiri Faltis (CSU) called on the SPD to contact Federal Minister of Health and party comrade Karl Lauterbach.
Sluyterman agreed.
According to Konrad, Lauterbach has already been contacted as an action alliance, but unfortunately only received a vague answer.
One should wait until the expert panel has met in the summer.
The discussion transitioned almost seamlessly into a pre-decision debate.
Markus Keller asked for the addition to the Weilheim hospital to be removed from the resolution.
"We are the Schongau city council and should limit ourselves to what is happening here." Keller feared that the locations could otherwise be played off against each other.
"It's about healthcare across the county," Puzzovio explained.
In Weilheim, too, people should be well looked after, according to Konrad.
That is why they also demand the 1n level (with inpatient basic and emergency care) instead of just a 1i level as planned for Schongau.
Nevertheless, it was agreed to remove the addition to Weilheim.
The city council voted unanimously in favor of the proposed resolution, provided the law is passed as Faltis objected.
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