This also includes inclusion in health insurance, so that people, who were often only able to take the bare necessities with them, can claim medical help, remedies and medical aids at the expense of the ÖGK. Since immediate help is crucial, the Austrian Health Insurance Fund and the Austrian Medical Association have agreed on how treatment of Ukrainian refugees can be made possible now until the legal and organizational requirements are in place.
Refugees from Ukraine are treated
Even without a social security number, refugees from the Ukraine can now receive treatment, prescriptions, prescriptions and referrals from resident panel doctors with a passport and the available personal data. In the future you can apply for an e-card replacement receipt. In this way, the necessary care for the people from Ukraine can be ensured quickly and unbureaucratically. “It is now important to help, quickly and easily. The Austrian health insurance fund has undertaken fast, innovative processes and will certainly not bother with bureaucracy in a humanitarian emergency such as the Ukraine crisis,” says ÖGK Director General Bernhard Wurzer. ÖGK Chairman Matthias Krenn also confirms: “The goal of social security is everyone to provide the best medical care. In a situation like this, Europe needs to pull together and show solidarity.”
Important step
The cooperation with the medical association is an important step. “We would like to thank the ÖGK for the quick and constructive cooperation. Especially at this time it is urgently necessary to help the people who had to leave everything behind to save themselves from the horrors of war. The willingness to help is particularly great among the resident doctors, and with the procedure that has now been decided we can make a contribution to alleviating the current suffering a little,” commented Johannes Steinhart, Vice President of the Austrian Medical Association and Federal Curia Chairman of the resident doctors. Thomas Szekeres, President of the Austrian Medical Association, emphasized: “For us doctors, it goes without saying that we should help now that people are only a few hundred kilometers away from Austria and have to fear for their lives. Immediately after the start of the war, hundreds of doctors in Austria agreed to help, also free of charge, and the medical associations immediately started aid measures, from collecting medicines to donating money.”