Seniors die every day in the homes in Bavaria because they have not yet been vaccinated.
Student assistants are already vaccinated at the large clinics.
A crooked picture, but one that is apparently just as wanted.
The
large clinics in Bavaria
are so well
supplied
with
corona vaccine
that they are already vaccinating student assistants and other staff without patient contact.
In the Bavarian cities and districts, however, there is a
fight for every vaccination dose
- small district clinics and senior citizens in the homes are still hopelessly undersupplied.
Not to mention
the over
80s
at home.
The
Bavarian Ministry of Health
sees no problem in this.
When Sebastian H. ** gets the vaccination appointment *, he has to frown for a moment.
Now?
In January?
Am I not taking someone else's vaccine?
H. really does not belong to the much-cited first priority group.
He happened to have a desk job as a student employee in the
Klinikum rechts der Isar in Munich
and was assigned a vaccination appointment via that.
"I've already thought about whether I should do that now." A colleague then convinced him.
Some of the nursing staff did not come, so there was so much left.
And then there were your own thoughts.
"If I refuse that now, will everyone else be vaccinated at some point, except me?" So he went.
At the same time, the
corona virus
breaks out
in
nursing homes
across Bavaria
because the facilities are still not vaccinated.
As recommended by the Robert Koch Institute *,
vaccinations are still
used during a
corona outbreak
in order to contain the disease.
For many seniors that comes too late.
They were already infected with Covid-19 * and are dying.
The 19 deaths in the Ebersberg district * are the youngest of many examples.
A student is vaccinated while seniors die in their beds for not getting it on time.
How can that be?
Corona vaccine distribution in Bavaria: a long administrative journey
The corona vaccine * is distributed throughout Bavaria by the
State Office for Health and Food Safety (LGL).
The amount is based on the population proportion of the Bavarian administrative districts, writes the local press office on request.
And further:
"The further fine distribution to the individual users within the administrative districts is the responsibility of the coordinators at the governments, whereby they take into account not only the proportion of the population within their administrative district, but also special needs, such as those of the hospitals, at their own discretion and priority and examination of the requirements."
Corona vaccine in Bavaria: Large clinics are supplied separately
In other words: Not only the
vaccination centers
in the Bavarian
districts
and
urban districts
receive
allocations
.
The
big hospitals
are their own vaccination centers and as such get their own share.
The LGL further writes in its statement: “Basically, when the vaccinations began in December 2020, the Ministry of Health planned to include the
university clinics in the fine distribution
.” And this “consideration” was apparently quite generous.
4000 vaccination doses distributed on the right of the Isar: "Herd immunity as soon as possible"
3,600 employees of
the clinic on the right of the Isar have already received a
first vaccination
, around 460 according to the clinic already a second.
That makes up almost
two thirds of
the entire workforce.
The clinic justifies the
high need
for vaccines in this early phase with the aim of achieving herd immunity as quickly as possible.
Also with a view to corona outbreaks in other houses.
An entire hospital in Berlin was recently quarantined to stop an internal outbreak.
“Such measures can lead to massive local supply bottlenecks in the health sector.” Now there are also other hospitals in Munich.
In many
counties
there is only
one clinic
.
For example
Miesbach
.
There is only the district
hospital Agatharied *
, which does not have the luxury of direct deliveries, but is dependent on the district's own vaccination center *.
“A lot of pressure is built up,” says Thomas Straßmüller *, the medical coordinator of the same.
The doctors point an accusing finger at the Munich clinics.
Rumor has it in Agatharied that a large, well-known house has already been completely vaccinated.
And for a long time, local colleagues only had vaccination doses for around a hundred employees, a fraction of the workforce.
Corona vaccination regulation clearly gives priority
But it is actually
prescribed
by the
Standing Vaccination Commission (STIKO)
, on which the
vaccination ordinance of the Federal Ministry of Health
is based.
In hospitals, only personnel with a very
high risk of exposure should be
vaccinated
in the first phase
, especially in
intensive care units
and
emergency rooms
.
The same goes for staff who deal a lot with
vulnerable groups
, such as cancer patients.
The rest of the time actually not.
Clinics interpret corona vaccination rules differently
And that little word “actually” is the problem.
Because the vaccination ordinance can be interpreted differently.
Nobody wants to be quoted.
But the hospitals, so we learned from confidential discussions with several large clinics, see it this way: Every employee has somehow contact with vulnerable groups and at the same time is exposed to a higher risk of infection.
That is why - actually - every employee belongs to the Prio 1 group.
Also the canteen help, also the administration and also Sebastian H., our student desk culprit from the beginning of the story.
In Agatharied the pressure seems to have had an effect.
On Tuesday, the hospital announced in a euphoric press release “Hospital is rolling up its sleeves” that
240 of around 1200 employees
have now been vaccinated.
At least a fifth.
They can only dream of the vaccination rates at the large Munich clinics.
Corona vaccinations in Bavaria: why do the clinics get so much vaccine?
The fact that the large clinics are now registering such large amounts of vaccinations for this reason is one thing.
That they also get it while the nursing homes haven't even been vaccinated is another.
It is distributed by the LGL, says the Bavarian
Ministry of Health
.
Yes, that's right, says the
LGL
, but only roughly.
The
district governments
will distribute them precisely
.
How much vaccine did the hospitals get directly?
Government is silent
We would have liked to know from the Upper Bavarian government how many hospitals in Upper Bavaria are directly supplied with vaccines.
As well as how much vaccine each of these hospitals got.
But she does not reveal that.
The higher vaccination quota at the hospitals can be explained by the fact that these are "systemically relevant" in the pandemic.
The Ministry of Health adds: "From the reported data, we can see that the vaccines in the clinics are handled very responsibly." The spokesman for the ministry does not give any specific figures.
Corona vaccination in Munich: Naked numbers speak for themselves
The published figures remain.
With a view to Munich, they speak for themselves.
The people in the metropolis outside the hospitals have received
11,800 vaccinations
so far.
9,800 vaccination doses
were given to the Munich clinics, which, like Agatharied in the Miesbach district, do not receive any direct deliveries.
In contrast, the
4,000 vaccine doses
stand for the
right of the Isar
with its almost
6,000 employees
. ***
That hardly
anyone
in Bavaria dares to predict when the
over 80-year-olds will
finally get their turn, who, by the way, are - actually - at the top of the vaccination ordinance of the federal government, can be understood from this numerical theory.
In the Miesbach district, not even the old people's and nursing homes are fully vaccinated.
Straßmüller: “The declared goal is that all old people's and nursing homes have their first and second vaccination by the end of the month.” Straßmüller can only laugh tiredly about the declared goal of herd immunity, which appears almost within reach on the right bank of the Isar.
"Agatharied would like that too."
* Merkur.de is part of the nationwide Ippen-Digital editors network.
** The name has been changed and known to the editors.
*** The fact that the right of the Isar is used here as an example has to do with the fact that we kindly received the exact figures from the hospital. According to the current state of our research, it can be assumed that the vaccination rate for all direct vaccine recipients is also high. The hospital and the Ministry of Health also point out that if employees fail to attend vaccination appointments at short notice, the thawed doses must be vaccinated quickly and it can also happen that employees with a lower priority are given them before the vaccine is thrown away got to. This was not the case with our student Sebastian H. He got his appointment one week in advance.
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