- A pespite de la decisión del Colegio Médico de Baden-Württemberg de retirar la educación continua en Homoeopatía de su ordinancia, Manfred Lucha, el Ministro Social de Stuttgart y miembro del Partido Verde, se opuso fuertemente a la medida, haciendo referencia a Baden-Württemberg como "el territorio de la curación natural".
- La Asociación Central Alemana de Médicos Homoeopáticos (DZVhA) criticó la decisión, afirmando que el Colegio Médico de Baden-Württemberg está quitando un método de curación solicitado y establecido de la educación continua en Baden-Württemberg.
- Según las nuevas reglas, los médicos en Baden-Württemberg ya no podrán seguir la educación continua en Homoeopatía, pero aún podrán practicarla si ya la han completado o están en proceso de completarla, y seguirá siendo reembolsada por la seguridad social estatal.
- Mientras que Manfred Lucha y la DZVhA defienden la importancia y efectividad de la Homoeopatía en la medicina, los críticos, como el Ministro Federal de Salud Karl Lauterbach y su partido SPD, desacuerdan, citando la falta de pruebas científicas que demuestren que la Homoeopatía funciona.
Decisión tomada - Cámara Médica hace huelga a la formación adicional en Homeopatía en Sudoeste
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In the Southwest, there will be no more Homoeopathy further education for doctors given by the state medical chamber's will. It will be removed from the further education ordinance, decided the chamber's representative assembly. The Social Ministry must approve the corresponding statutory amendment, said a ministry spokeswoman. The formalities review has begun. If everything goes as planned, there is nothing more opposing the removal of the further education.
The debate on this topic has been heated for two years. In July 2022, the representative assembly had already voted to remove the additional qualification Homoeopathy from the further education ordinance in Baden-Württemberg. Social Minister Manfred Lucha (Greens) called it 'the absolutely wrong signal.'
The German Central Association of Homoeopathic Doctors (DZVhA) expressed indignation. "The Medical Chamber Baden-Württemberg is taking away a requested and established healing method from further education," it said in a statement. Federal Health Minister Karl Lauterbach welcomed the decision, however. The SPD politician wrote on the platform X that there was nothing to learn for doctors in homoeopathy.
Further education qualifications are special qualifications and generally do not set a prerequisite for diagnosis and therapy, the chamber stated after the decision on Saturday. The homoeopathy further education should no longer be offered. A review of the chamber's proportionality did not raise any concerns earlier. The upcoming review of the amended statutes by the Social Ministry is purely formal in nature, the spokeswoman said. It has nothing to do with any contentious issues.
The treatment of patients in Baden-Württemberg with homoeopathic methods and means will neither be restricted nor banned, emphasized the chamber. Doctors who have already completed or are still in the process of completing the further education are not affected. The DZVhA emphasized that the removal does not mean that homoeopathy is no longer reimbursed by statutory health insurance.
The homoeopathy further education existed besides in Baden-Württemberg only still in Saxony and Rhineland-Palatinate. The Federal Medical Chamber had also spoken out for the removal in 2022.
Lucha was against the abolition. Baden-Württemberg is the land of natural healing and homoeopathy is an important part of healthcare for many people, he said.
However, the effectiveness of homoeopathy is controversial. These medicines are usually made from plant, mineral, or animal substances. Then they are diluted according to certain rules - sometimes so long that the preparations no longer contain any active substance. There are no scientific proofs yet that homoeopathy works, it was stated in the chamber's proportionality review.
