Gießen/Marburg (dpa/lhe) - Senior physicians at the University Hospital Gießen and Marburg (UKGM) have again called for a quick solution and sufficient financing for the privatized hospital. It was not exaggerated to "speak of an existential threat with the loss of realistic future prospects," said a statement from the clinic directors on Monday. In a letter to Hesse's Prime Minister Boris Rhein (CDU), among others, they appealed to reach an agreement for the UKGM - or to consider a takeover by the state.
For several months, the question of the future financial resources of the university clinic has been discussed. The majority owner Rhön-Klinikum AG and the state of Hesse are negotiating about this. The background is that Rhön-Klinikum AG, which belongs to the Asklepios group, terminated a so-called future agreement for the hospital in June. This was justified, among other things, by the fact that the UKGM was withheld from investment funds for university clinics in Germany.
From the point of view of the clinic directors, there is currently a "confrontational mood between Asklepios / Rhön and the country" and a standstill in the negotiations, as they further wrote. This must be overcome in the short term, "be it through an exchange in the conduct of negotiations and/or the involvement of arbitration".
The doctors also demanded: "If it turns out that university medical standards and private corporate culture are not compatible with each other, a return of the UKGM to the state of Hesse should be examined as an honest alternative and initiated." Addressing Prime Minister Rhein and the Asklepios shareholder, they wrote: "We would like to ask you, as the highest decision-makers in the state and the Asklepios Group, to examine this constructively."
According to the Ministry of Science, the state "still has great interest" in an agreement with Rhön on the basis of a joint declaration of intent concluded at the beginning of the year. The points recorded there are "a good solution for the employees, who gain security with the exclusion of operational layoffs and the ban on outsourcing of parts of the company, for the care of patients and for the entire region," said the ministry on Monday in Wiesbaden With. Such an agreement is also possible.
