- Title: 172 AT COVID-19 Health Minister
- Date: 26th March 2020
- Description:Austrian Health Minister explains preparedness plans for hospitals Austria currently accounts for 42 deaths due to the coronavirus (08:00gmt). This was announced by Health Minister Rudolf Anschober (Greens) at a press conference on Thursday morning. The number of sick patients was 6,001, an increase of 13.6 percent over the previous day. However, this is only a somewhat meaningful daily figure. The goal is to reach the single-digit range, he stressed again. Shotlist - SOUNDBITE (German) Rudolf Anschober, Austrian Health Minister: "We are evaluating the incoming data every day, there are light signs that the measures begin to take a light effect but we are still far away from the effect we want to reach and we have to reach. Our big second target is a good position in the hospital sector, we must to be well prepared with the aim to have capacities enough. 00.0028 There was a whole series of measures: As you know in the hospitals only acute cases are operated. What is still not known, we have made extensive liberalizations as part of the COVID-19 law concerning the possible extension of personal resources but also concerning the scope of action of the doctors. Since one week the examinations in the laboratories can be done without a doctor’s presence. Our current rule says that a specialized doctor can exercise in different medical areas and we created the possibility that retired doctors, foreign doctors and medical interns can perform medical activities under supervision. 0:1.25 Hundreds of medical students have registered and some are working with the hotline 1450, students of the two last semesters who have enough know-how for giving important support to the hotline which had already helped a lot these last weeks. This hotline led to the situation that persons with symptoms did not go to the ambulances nor to the doctor’s cabinets, but we're open to being guided. "
- Collection: ORF
- Genre:News
- Producer:ORF
- Transmission Date:26/03/2020
- Decade: 2020s