Mobile Lung Screening/X-ray Bus
The Styrian Mobile Lung Screening Service (X-ray Bus) is on the road throughout the region, as required by the Tuberculosis Screening Ordinance.
Our digital X-ray system allows us to perform chest X-rays with minimal radiation exposure.
This service is directed at:
- Persons with an increased risk of contracting tuberculosis,
- (Tbc risk group screening in refugee and asylum seeker facilities, homeless shelters and prisons, prison officers, prostitutes)
- Facilities with an increased risk of infection for their clients and staff (hospitals, retirement homes, nursing homes for people with disabilities, mobile home care)
- Contact tracing in case of contact with tuberculosis patients
- Persons involved in TB care
- Public event organisers (for example, of health fairs)
- Contact:
- Martha Maria Dokl, Dolores Wizsy, Irmgard Gigerl
- Amt der Steiermärkischen Landesregierung
- Abteilung 8 Gesundheit, Pflege und Wissenschaft
- Fachabteilung Gesundheit und Pflegemanagement
Friedrichgasse 9, 8010 Graz
Phone: +43 (316) 877-3548 or 3546, Fax: +43 (0316) 877-5859
Mobile: +43 676 8666-0179
sanitaetsdirektion@stmk.gv.at