Doctor Fritz-Gerrit Kropp is said to give vaccine to people over 80 years of age.
Almost all of them are vaccinated.
Because he cannot use the vaccination software, he is now looking for patients himself.
Oberschleißheim
- The vaccination chaos continues, at least for the general practitioners in the district.
The doctors are to vaccinate a large part of the people against Covid-19 in the future.
You are advised by the Ministry of Health to vaccinate priority group 1 first.
These are mainly citizens over 80 years of age.
The vaccine is due to arrive in the practices next week, but the doctors have problems finding unvaccinated people in priority group 1.
Like Fritz-Gerrit Kropp from Oberschleißheim.
"There are probably still enough people over 80," says Kropp.
However, they cannot find the employees of his group practice.
"We have to go through our card index and call everyone over 80," explains the employed doctor.
Kropp also spoke to friends on the street.
The answer almost always comes: "I have already been vaccinated."
General practitioners do not have access to "BayIMCO"
The search for people over 80 is so time-consuming because general practitioners do not have access to “BayIMCO”, the Free State's registration portal.
All vaccinated citizens are listed here.
Access to the data would simplify the search for general practitioners.
However, the doctors do not have access.
"The Bavarian vaccination management pulls up my toenails," says Kropp.
If in the future vaccinations will take place in the practices, an employee of the vaccination center will even have to be present to “deal with the bureaucracy with the patients,” the doctor said.
Vaccination center manager: "The search for people over 80 is a huge effort"
Friedrich Kiener, himself a family doctor and head of the vaccination center in Unterschleißheim, reports of similar problems.
“The search for people over 80 is a huge effort.” In his practice in Unterschleißheim, he and two employees called potential vaccinators for three hours.
The sounding is "more effort than the whole vaccination".
For him, the strict prioritization by date of birth makes little sense: He would rather vaccinate a sick 75-year-old than an active 81-year-old.
Kiener estimates that at the end of April, all over 80 year olds will be vaccinated.
Then it's group 2's turn: it includes around 70 to 80-year-olds, people with trisomy 21 and people with dementia.
Vaccination prioritization: How meticulously looking for general practitioners is not specified
Family doctors could now make it easy for themselves and simply vaccinate under 80-year-olds.
However, you are strictly required to vaccinate people in Group 1 first.
"The prioritization according to the Coronavirus Vaccination Ordinance continues to apply to doctors as well," writes the Bavarian Ministry of Health on request.
But if the doctor has phoned all patients, he may also vaccinate group 2, says a spokeswoman for the Munich district office.
It is not specified how meticulously family doctors have to search for this.
Many people will not be able to vaccinate Kropp and his colleagues next week anyway.
In the first week, the practice only receives 20 doses of vaccine.