Linz to Receive an Outpatient Clinic for Violence

At the beginning of April, the Kepler University Hospital in Linz sent a woman out of the hospital without treatment, even though the woman had recently been the victim of rape. Under pressure from women's rights organisations, the SPÖ women, the Greens and NEOS, Upper Austria finally also receives its own violence clinic, in order to treat women and girls professionally with experience of violence. It is not an isolated case: those affected by …

In April, a homeless, help-seeking woman was rejected by the Kepler University Hospital. According to demands of SPÖ and Greens, the country now wants to establish an outpatient clinic for violence.

After the rejection of a patient who, according to her information, was raped and sought help in the Med Campus IV of the Linz University Hospital Kepler (KUK), the head of state responsible for health Christine Haberlander (ÖVP) has announced that Oberösterreich will now also receive an ambulance for violence. She has given the Upper Austrian Health Holding (OÖG) a corresponding order, she informed in a message on Monday.