Bavaria's Prime Minister Söder recently criticized the lack of willingness to vaccinate among nursing staff and brought a corona vaccination requirement into play.
In the Dachau institutions, however, they think little of it.
Because: The will to vaccinate is there.
What is missing is the vaccine.
Dachau
- Among the residents of the retirement and nursing homes in the Dachau region, the case is clear: "The willingness to be vaccinated is very high, almost everyone wants to be vaccinated," emphasizes Dr.
Christian Günzel, who, as the district's medical doctor, is currently responsible for all processes relating to the corona vaccination.
On the other hand, enthusiasm for vaccination is still somewhat subdued among the staff of the facilities.
In other words: One or the other colleague prefers to think a little more whether he actually wants to expect the vaccination.
For the doctor Günzel, this attitude is understandable.
As a doctor, he himself only got an insight into the composition and mode of action of the vaccine in December.
Although he is basically a vaccination advocate, he says: “We are a free country.
And the vaccination campaign was short.
The topic still has to be spread across the board. "
More residents than employees vaccinated
The fact that there is not yet enough vaccine for the broader population plays into the hands of vaccination advocates.
Because so far, it is said from the old people's, health and care facilities in the city and district, not all employees could have been vaccinated anyway.
In the Friedrich Meinzolt House in Dachau, for example, 90 percent of the residents and 60 percent of the employees have been vaccinated so far.
According to a spokeswoman, the fact that 40 percent of colleagues are still unvaccinated is not due to their unwillingness, but simply to the fact that they have not yet had the opportunity.
Also in the Karlsfeld Curanum home, which had a serious corona outbreak with numerous deaths in November, "over 90 percent of the residents and 65 percent of the nursing staff" were vaccinated.
The home management, according to spokeswoman Tanja Kurz, was "pleased to see that nurses who had asked for time to think about the vaccination date wanted to be re-vaccinated at the next opportunity".
In the Senterra home in Indersdorf there was also "no one who had flatly refused to be vaccinated," said a spokeswoman.
While "some were there straight away, the others still want a bit of time to think it over".
Just like Günzel, those responsible in the homes are therefore very critical of introducing mandatory vaccinations for nursing staff, as has now been brought into play by Prime Minister Markus Söder.
In the Marienstift Caritas nursing home in Dachau, one even had to laugh heartily about it.
There was no freedom to refuse vaccination: “We have not yet been vaccinated!” Basically, however, the administration says, “our willingness does not look bad.
We want to get vaccinated when the time comes ”.
Vaccination boss Günzel can give hope: By the end of January, he hopes, “we will be through with a total of 17 homes and facilities in the district”.
Things are going well in the Dachau clinic
Things are also going well at the Dachau Clinic: According to spokeswoman Pia Ott, the willingness to vaccinate is high, 350 employees have been vaccinated so far and another 200 are to follow today and tomorrow.
As soon as the clinic was informed about the next allocation of vaccination doses, vaccination appointments would also be organized for the employees in the following weeks.
However, according to Ott, the vaccination doses are only allocated "in short-term consultation with the district office".
According to Günzel, it is already certain that the next batch of vaccines for the clinic next week will no longer come from the company Biontech / Pfizer, but from the US manufacturer Moderna.
However, according to Günzel, the principle of action of the vaccine does not differ: Both would prevent the vaccinated person from contracting Covid-19.
Only the temperatures that are necessary for storing the vaccination doses are different.
While the Moderna vaccine can be stored in a normal freezer, the Biontech vaccine bottles need special cooling at minus 70 degrees Celsius.
However, Günzel emphasizes that this challenge has not yet arisen, because: “We have never had the time to store vaccines.
If we got any, we inoculated it immediately. "
