Empty shelves, empty warehouses: the pharmacies in the district hardly have any corona self-tests that they can sell to their customers.
Since the pandemic has picked up speed again, delivery bottlenecks have resulted in empty warehouses.
Erding
- "We now have to test, vaccinate, test so that we don't ruin our next Christmas again," says Jens Krautscheid, owner of the Park Pharmacy Dorfen. But it's not always that easy. Krautscheid and his colleagues hardly have any test kits that they can sell to their customers. Since the pandemic picked up speed again, delivery bottlenecks have resulted in empty warehouses.
A father from the eastern district turned angrily to our editorial team.
Like all parents of kindergarten children, he has been receiving vouchers from the Ministry of Health since the summer, with which he should receive two corona rapid tests for his child in the pharmacy every week.
Unlike school children, the little ones are not tested in the facilities.
Instead, parents are encouraged to check their offspring at home.
But how is that supposed to work when the test kits are sold out? Asks his father.
Only one of the four pharmacies in Dorfen could have helped him.
“There is nothing left at the moment,” confirms Dieter Sauer, owner of the Marien Apotheke Dorfen.
"We can hardly get through to the suppliers by phone to order supplies," he reports.
"Everyone is overloaded."
His colleague Krautscheid still has a few remaining stocks in stock. “But I also buy tests like a madman,” he says flippantly. Katja Glückstein from the town hall pharmacy in Erding also says: “We order non-stop, and the tests are always gone quickly.” Another long-awaited delivery has just arrived at the Sempt pharmacy in Erding. “We didn't have any tests for two weeks, even though they had been ordered a long time ago,” explains owner Benedikt Friedl. The situation is similar in the Rathaus Apotheke Neufinsing. “There was a bottleneck,” confirms owner Roland Fellermeier. At the moment this is over. The only question is how long.
Normally, ten to 15 customers come every week with purchase orders, reports Krautscheid. “On Monday there were suddenly 25 in one day. The demand has risen radically, it is literally exploding. ”Whether lollipop tests, spitting tests or chopsticks for a throat swab - people take everything they could get.
Stephanie Weltrich-Streit, owner of the Weltrich'sche pharmacy in Wartenberg, has reported a “very large rush” for a few days. At least since it became known that 3G would apply in the workplace, companies have also stocked up on test sticks. Together with the kindergarten children, who would be tested all the more frequently in the fall of colds, and private individuals who, since the incidence has increased, also let the chopsticks go around before family celebrations and Co., the demand has left the supply behind. "As always, the flow of goods lags behind," says Welrich-Streit.
The pharmacists criticize that they were repeatedly informed too late or insufficiently.
The earlier they knew about decisions about the corona policy, the sooner they could ultimately react, says Sauer.
This is particularly relevant for those who, like Weltrich-Streit, Fellermeier or Krautscheid, also offer certified rapid tests on site.
"I called the government last Friday to see if the rapid tests would be free again," reports Krautscheid.
“There it said: no.
A day later I read in the newspaper that the tests will be free again from Monday.
You can't think of anything else. "
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