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At least 39 surgeons out of the supply of four hospitals in West Virginia, on Wednesday to protest rising medical proven insurance costs, officials said.

The hospitals are in Wheeling, in the northern part of the state sandwiched between Pennsylvania and Ohio. You now have the transfer of emergency operations at another location and to end the procedure provided at the end of the strike by doctors who have planned, are at the end of the month, officials said.

“This is an emergency,” said Dr. Donald Hofreuter, Chief Executive of Wheeling-hospital, from Wednesday noon had a patient after surgery at a hospital in Morgantown, about 80 km.

Eighteen surgeons at the hospital went Wheeling, Wednesday, including all those who, in general, orthopedic and cardiac surgery, Hofreuter said.

Ohio Valley Medical Center, 13 surgeons lack a multitude of fields, including education and cardiovascular surgery, spokesman Howard Gamble said. His urgency is to remain open throughout the strike, but patients need additional care are transported to a hospital in the border in Ohio, he said.

As Wednesday morning, the hospital are still not enough time for the transfer of anyone, “said Gamble.

Eight surgeons from different departments was awarded to Reynolds Memorial Hospital, a nursing coach said there, but did not have time to transfer all patients as a result of the action.

Weirton Medical Center is also affected by the strike, but it was an official comment Wednesday.

Surgeons of all requests sent to 30 days in the absence of disease leaves their homes, with an option to extend for 30 days.

Hospitals - which there were increased costs similar to their own mistakes medical insurance art - say they expect that surgeons back before the end of January, if not already, as the governor of the state legislature and the new labour legislation What is now at a crisis.
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Tony Gregory, a spokesman for the West Virginia Hospital Association, a nonprofit of any State Group, said the flooding is a slow turning point in his State.

The legislation is now the legislature and the governor, and there is a willingness to move from, “he said.

The hospital representative said the biggest cost factor in the surgeon ‘absence in the field of human resources, as nurses - particularly in surgical services - must be reduced. Financial are not even considered, she said.

WV is one of the countries most affected by the issue of increasing abuse of insurance costs.

“There is virtually no insurance market to West Virginia,” said Gregory. “There are 60 under the license for commercial insurance carriers offer insurance policies fault. However, little choice.

This remains the surgeon according to the State fault insurance plan, costs are extreme, officials said.

“It is too expensive or more expensive than what they paid in the commercial market,” said Hofreuter.

Hospitals appear to sympathize with the surgeon marked, even when she still major gaps in their staff. Ohio Valley Medical Center currently pays more than $ 10000 per day for the assurance of state for fault of the hospital, a cost that can only grow if the legislature will not happen for emergency aid, said Gamble.

“We understand the surgeons’ situation and calls for the Ohio Valley people in the state demanding the legislature and the group leader Dir [Bob] Wise, to address this problem before the situation leads to a loss of benefits of surgery , “He said.

Gregory said the hospital society does not support the strike, but to understand the reasons behind.

“It is clear their frustration at the acquisition of readily available and accessible fault insurance,” he said.

At the beginning of the legislative session on January 8 legislature, due to consider a bill very similar to medicine Injury Compensation Reform Act passed in California during 1975. MICRA limited damages in claims against providers of medical misconduct, the limited success of lawyers fees, and a limitation period for claims of medical negligence.

At the same time, state officials are floating other options. The director of the State Insurance Agency proposed, for example, that Ohio Valley Medical Center approved as a centre for Level 2 trauma surgeons could be covered at a reduced rate of insurance, “said Gamble.

While the proposal apelliert to hospital, Gamble, it was not doing enough to solve the problem of the escalating cost of insurance. It would also be for doctors, not trauma services, he said.