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Nandlstadt's mayor Gerhard Betz (l.) and Franz Asbeck from Au are also committed to preserving the Mainburg hospital.
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The Mainburg hospital is to be downgraded to a “regional health center”.
People in the Freising district see this critically - and are mobilizing.
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– In April last year, the city of Ingolstadt and the surrounding districts of Kelheim, Eichstätt, Pfaffenhofen and Neuburg-Schrobenhausen commissioned a report on the “development of a cross-location medical strategy” for the region.
The result is now available – and has serious implications for the Mainburg hospital.
It is therefore recommended that the Mainburg hospital become a “regional health center”.
There is resistance to these plans - for example through the “Save the Mainburg Hospital” initiative, represented by ten men and women.
In a petition, the initiative calls for people to work to preserve the hospital.
If the facility were to lose its clinic status, this would have serious consequences: “The inpatient emergency room as well as the inpatient basic hospital care with intensive care and internal medicine (including cardiac catheter laboratory) would be lost,” says the initiative.
And further: “We call on the responsible committees and decision-makers to maintain the acute hospital in Mainburg with its high-quality emergency care, to make the necessary investments to maintain the primary care provider status and for full basic emergency care and not to downgrade the hospital to a regional health center. “
Support from the Freising district
The initiative receives support from the Freising district: Franz Asbeck, for example, who has been a member of the Au municipal council for many years, is mobilizing.
“It can’t be that profit decides,” he says in an interview with the FT.
The focus must be on optimal (emergency) care for citizens in Hallertau, not money.
And that’s why “we help and support the initiative”.
Signature lists are currently available in almost all shops, doctor's offices and gas stations in Au.
Franz Asbeck hopes that many people will support the “Save the Mainburg Hospital” project.
Asbeck has found a comrade-in-arms in the neighboring community of Nandlstadt: Mayor Gerhard Betz.
The town hall boss, who worked full-time in the emergency services for 21 years, worked tirelessly for a 24-hour rescue service in Nandlstadt and has now achieved this goal, is very familiar with the topic of emergency care.
And he has a clear opinion about it.
Emergency room is “vital”
For the region it is “vitally important that the emergency room in Mainburg is maintained”.
If this were to be eliminated, emergency service travel times would be massively extended.
As an example, he cited the Nandlstadt ambulance, which regularly helps out in Mainburg when the vehicle there is in use.
“Our vehicle won’t be there for three hours because it’s carting the patients around,” says Betz, concerned.
Mainburg is “an ideal hospital for primary care,” says Betz, who was and is a “fan of the Mainburg hospital” not only as an emergency paramedic.
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The Freising district, the mayor remembers, “let the Moosburg hospital die” many years ago.
In his opinion, the same thing should not happen in the neighboring district of Mainburg.
Because: “We are the ones who suffer in rural areas.”
Longer routes for emergency services
Freising's BRK emergency services manager Hubert Böck cannot yet say how hard the restructuring and the associated loss of the emergency room will actually affect the emergency service.
Sure: If the emergency room in Mainburg were eliminated, there would be additional transport routes for patients, he said when asked by the FT.
However, he also knows: “There are advantages in terms of quality if you create large centers.” In large hospitals, patients could potentially receive better care through better equipment, concentrated expertise and more bed capacity.
Nevertheless, he knows that “care close to home” is immensely important for the citizens of the Hallertau.
It is now up to the municipal committees and the supervisory bodies to decide how to proceed.