Well-being - Planned emergency care reform poses challenges for Mecklenburg-Vorpommern, according to CDU.
Federal Health Minister Karl Lauterbach's (SPD) plan to reform the rescue service and emergency care could leave rural areas behind, the CDU in the Schwerin state parliament warns. If Lauterbach's proposals are implemented, Mecklenburg-Vorpommern would be left with just two rescue control centers instead of its current six, parliamentary group leader Daniel Peters revealed on Sunday.
This is unacceptable for a large, sparsely populated state like Mecklenburg-Vorpommern, Peters said after visiting the integrated control center in Greifswald. The proposal is ill-conceived for such a state.
According to the Federal Ministry of Health's plans, there should only be one rescue control center per million inhabitants in Germany in the future. This might lead to issues in states with low population densities, such as Mecklenburg-Vorpommern.
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Source: www.stern.de
