New reform package

Styrian hospitals: who should merge with whom

The state hospitals in Bad Radkersburg, Voitsberg and Mürzzuschlag are among those affected.

(Bild: Christian Jauschowetz, Peter Bernthaler, Kages, Krone KREATIV)

The reform of the reform of the reform: According to reports, politicians and Kages will present their ideas for saving the Styrian hospital system next week - once again. The "Krone" knows the first details.

Long surgery waiting times for patients, chronically overworked staff, the necessary subsidies from public funds are soon to exceed the billion mark - in short, things have been better for Kages as the operator of the Styrian provincial hospitals.

Despite countless restructuring measures, those responsible do not yet seem to have found the panacea in the fight against the health crisis. For this reason, further changes have been made in the background for months.