Continuation of obstetrics assured

Obstetrics has been under increasing pressure throughout Germany for years, mainly because of the high costs of professional indemnity insurance. More and more midwives have now given up this core area of ​​their field of activity. All the more gratifying is the message from the Johanneum in Wildeshausen that the continuation of obstetrics in the hospital could be secured.

11/12/2012

Last year, around 260 children were released from the Johanneum Wildeshausen, and the number of births is expected to increase to 360 in 2012, reports the hospital. In view of this quite positive development, the receipt of obstetrics in the hospital seems out of the question. However, the Johanneum was initially faced with the task of succeeding the late March 2013 retiring attending physician of the Department of Gynecology and Obstetrics, Dr. med. med. Günter Grewe, to find. „It is very, very difficult to find a gynecologist“, emphasized the administrative director of Johanneums, Hubert Bartelt. Grewe is one of two attending physicians who up to now have maintained the practice of gynecology and obstetrics at Johanneum's Medical Care Center (MVZ). „The long and intensive efforts to secure the succession of Dr. Ing. med. Günter Grewe was worth it: with Dr. Ing. med. Wolfgang Killinger has the Johanneum an experienced and qualified gynecologist as attending physician for the hospital can win“, so the message of the hospital.

Expansion of gynecology and obstetrics planned
Due to the regular succession for the gynecologist at the Johanneum Wildeshausen the continuation of obstetrics is guaranteed. In addition are - „also thanks to the third Kassenarztsitzes, which was awarded the Johanneum by the Kassenärztlichen Association“ - set the course for a performance extension in gynecology, reports the hospital. Obstetrics in the Johanneum Wildeshausen is assuming an increasingly important supply position in the region, as midwifery in neighboring Bassum discontinued its offer a year ago and in September the gynecological clinic of the municipal hospital in Delmenhorst also closed its midwifery. The administrative director of the Johanneum recognizes in the situation also an opportunity to expand the obstetrics in his hospital. The patients are looking for a replacement, which should be offered to them in Wildeshausen.

The future of medicine is female
Although the third attending physician for the department of gynecology and obstetrics at the Johanneum Wildeshausen has not yet been found, the clinic was optimistic that in the near future it would be able to attract appropriately qualified doctors. A division of the third Kassenarztsitzes conceivable so that ultimately four doctors would take over the obstetrics in the Johanneum. This would significantly reduce the burden on the individual physicians, since four doctors had a completely different frequency of service, explained the administrative director of the hospital. In terms of staffing, Bartelt added that the future of medicine is feminine and „most young doctors women“ are. For this reason, play „the compatibility of family and work has a greater role.“ When the job could be filled, is not yet in sight, but he also knew only „since a week that we get a third doctor“, explained Bartelt.

Further important additions to the Johanneum
The Johanneum has not only arranged the succession in the field of obstetrics, but also a successor to the „in July 2012 tragically killed colleague Dipl. Med. Ulrich Will“ found. From April 2013 Dr. med. Annette Sonnenburg started as a patient doctor for the hospital and as an established ENT doctor at the MVZ Johanneum. With the previously operating at the Bremen-center medical center ENT specialist „found a highly qualified and experienced successor“, reports the Johanneum Wildeshausen. (Fp)

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