As of: March 1, 2024, 10:00 a.m
By: Andrea Hermann
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There was a large turnout at the protest march on Wednesday.
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The “Save the Mainburg Hospital” initiative is receiving incredible support: due to the large turnout, the demo even had to be postponed.
Over 3,000 citizens - significantly more than expected - took part in the protest march followed by a rally in Mainburg on Wednesday to raise their voices against the planned closure of the emergency room.
“The response was overwhelming,” reports co-initiator Annette Fleckensack in an interview with FT.
“Overarching outcry”
Due to the large number of participants, the rally could not be held at Griesplatz as planned, but had to be moved to Schöllwiese.
Citizens from the Freising district were also there to fight for the preservation of the hospital - above all Beatrix Sebald, 3rd mayor of Au, and Auer market councilor Franz Asbeck, who care deeply about the facility in Mainburg.
Co-initiator Annette Fleckensack is happy and grateful about this “overarching outcry”, as she tells the FT.
The over 26,000 signatures that the petition, which was started just over three weeks ago, has received so far shows that the citizens of Hallertau care about their hospital.
The Kelheim district council will decide this morning whether the emergency room and the inpatient basic hospital care with intensive care unit and internal medicine (including cardiac catheter laboratory) will be maintained.
“We hope that through the petition, the clarification and the noticeable pressure we have made the district councilors think,” says Fleckensack, who is herself a district councilor in Kelheim.
She hopes that the decision will be made by each hospital and then we will work together to find a solution.