District - Not only about the vaccines of the various manufacturers is discussed - the distribution of the vaccines is also controversial.
The allocation is specified by the Federal Vaccination Ordinance for all vaccination centers and was recommended by the Standing Vaccination Commission at the Robert Koch Institute.
As the district office announced yesterday, something should change shortly: Hardship cases will be assessed particularly in the future.
Cases of hardship that, due to their state of health, want to be vaccinated earlier than stipulated in the vaccination ordinance are usually severely disabled or ill people who can hardly be assigned to one of the existing priority groups.
There is now hope for them: Bavaria's Minister of Health, Klaus Holetschek, had District Administrator Olaf von Löwis informed through the President of the State Parliament and constituency representative Ilse Aigner that a central vaccination commission was formed.
This will start work in the next few days.
Contact details and requirements for applications are currently not known.
"That is the best news of the day," said the district administrator happily.
Yesterday morning he asked Aigner to work with Holetschek to find a quick solution.
At the same time he telephoned the Fürstenfeldbruck District Administrator Thomas Karmasin, the chairman of the Upper Bavarian District Administrator.
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"I am particularly pleased that Ilse Aigner received an answer so quickly because the subject is really urgent," says Löwis.
In the past few days he had received feedback from several disability officers who asked him to work for a hardship commission.
“We then considered setting up such a commission in our district,” explains Löwis.
But that is hardly possible.
Like the conversations with the heads of the vaccination center in Hausham, Beate Faus and Dr.
Thomas Straßmüller, as well as with the coordination group, showed that it is hardly possible to weigh up individual cases fairly and transparently at the district level.
The individual fates would possibly be assessed differently by other medical teams or commissions.
The vaccination team is already noticing that individual doctors sometimes assess their own cases differently.
Therefore, the vaccination software of the Free State, which assigns the vaccination appointments, does not generally give priority to hardship cases.
Holetschek's starting signal for the central vaccination commission is welcomed by those responsible.
“We don't want to put our own citizens in a worse position than if they lived in another district,” says Löwis.
But that might be the case if the Miesbacher commission were to classify individual clinical pictures differently than those in Bad Tölz, for example.
“It's about fairness,” emphasizes Faus.
“We cannot do that at the district level.
That must be solved uniformly throughout Bavaria. "
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