Bonn --
Oil and fabulous wealth, but no functioning health system - which is why many people come from Saudi Arabia for longer hospital stays to Bonn. Million a lucrative business? Bit of it!
The Head of the Neurological Rehabilitation Clinic Godeshöhe, Rolf Radzuweit, won the last four years now that the Saudi embassy in Berlin pays medical costs, "debts amounting to nearly one million euro are underway," the head of a clinic for EXPRESS.
"We are not talking about the rich oil sheiks," clarifies Radzuweit. 99 percent of Arab patients in the facility Godesberger are ordinary citizens. And for the Saudi embassy will issue a reimbursement guarantee. Radzuweit: "An absolute model of success - if they would pay for. Allegedly disappeared in the embassy accounts, then joined the staff. Or, as requested at the bazaar discounts of up to 60 percent. But since I do not do them. "
Especially the patients from the East are time-consuming and costly. "It's hard earned money. Most Arabs demonstrated with the sole members traveled with a large patient rooms, "said Radzuweit. Plus costs for special meals and interpreters. For simple maintenance tasks should march instead of the nurse already views the superintendent.
The Godeshöhe is not unique. According to a study by the University of Bonn-Rhein-Sieg have not already paid 92 percent of the outstanding German clinics, hundreds of millions have been. Therefore, some institutions have decided to treat any patients from the East anymore. Or - even on the recommendation of the Foreign Office, which has published a leaflet - only after payment. But that is not eligible for Godeshöhe. "Then come any more patients to us," fears Radzuweit.
And the way out? "There needs to intervene in the leadership of the Foreign Office, with a nicely worded letters, it is not done," says Radzuweit. "If the Foreign Office makes printing, pays the message, too." An EXPRESS inquiry in the Saudi Arabian Embassy incidentally, went unanswered.
