Association of University Hospitals in Germany criticizes the actions of the CDU and FDP

23.02.2011 17:48

Association of University Hospitals in Germany criticizes ignorant actions by the CDU and FDP against the advice of all experts / election results or constitutional complaint as perspectives.

Despite massive criticism and protests from the four university hospitals in Freiburg, Heidelberg, Tübingen and Ulm and serious objections from experts in university medicine nationwide, the Baden-Württemberg state parliament passed the University Medicine Act on February 3, 2011 with the votes of the CDU-FDP coalition government, the association criticized the university hospitals in Germany.

“It is a unique occurrence in higher education policy that a minister and the government factions completely ignore the explicit warnings of experts and those affected,” explained Rüdiger Strehl, Secretary General of the Association of University Hospitals in Germany (VUD). Bureaucracy and state supervision would be imposed on university medicine in Baden-Württemberg; Their leading position in Germany and Europe is threatened by the law, economic risks have not been examined or have been disregarded. The association is now relying on the changed balance of power after the state elections or a constitutional challenge against the law, which legal experts consider to be promising.