But the main thing is that the air conditioning in the central kitchen is running at full speed. In the Floridsdorf Clinic in Vienna, things are once again heating up.
Heat wave in front of the door, sweltering heat in the rooms. In the Floridsdorf clinic, patients and staff are sweating. A father-to-be who visited his wife every day measured more than 31 degrees Celsius on the maternity ward with a thermometer he had brought with him. “It was a cloudy day. Otherwise it’s even more unbearable,” says the municipal employee, who wishes to remain anonymous. High energy consumption and hospital hygiene Only individual areas in the hospital are air-conditioned, such as operating theatres, intensive care units, laboratories or the central kitchen (!). Other departments – like the babies – have to be content with window blinds. The health association explains: “Classic air conditioning systems are not installed in entire building complexes in hospitals these days because of the energy consumption and for reasons of hospital hygiene.” FPÖ leader Dominik Nepp: “The KH Nord is an impertinence for taxpayers and patients. Over 31 degrees in the maternity ward is a joke. The City Councilor for Health must quickly upgrade here.”
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