After Gordon Kelz, with the support of the Carinthia team, is now campaigning at state level for the abolition of the fee for the examination of the dead in the Kabeg houses in Villach and Klagenfurt, the authorities that collect this fee have spoken out. According to the magistrates, the fee is prescribed by law.
For 20 years Kelz has been fighting – as reported – against the fact that the fee of 180 euros, which has to be paid throughout Carinthia, is collected in the event of deaths in the Kabeg houses in Klagenfurt and Villach. Kelz: “On behalf of the magistrates, undertakers pass on the bill to the bereaved, although both hospitals have their own pathologies!” “Hospitals are financed by the state and the cities. You can’t make any difference whether someone dies in the countryside or in the LKH,” counters Alfred Winkler, head of the Villach city administration. The fee for the examination of the dead is stipulated by law: “The state legislature would have to abolish the fee!” This is confirmed by Klagenfurt’s mayor Christian Scheider: “The amount of the fee for the examination of the dead is set by ordinance.”
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