The German shortage management for the corona vaccine also affects the two large hospitals in the district that treat Covid 19 patients.
Prof. Dr.
Fabian Stuby, Medical Director of the Murnau Accident Clinic, in which first vaccinations for employees have been suspended for around two weeks, is critical.
Murnau
- The announced turbo has not yet ignited - Germany still has too little corona vaccine. This affects the counties that have to manage the shortage. This does not stop at the two large hospitals, which largely immunize their employees themselves. Most recently, frustration broke out in Murnau in view of this situation: “We haven't received any doses for initial vaccinations in the last few weeks,” criticized Prof. Dr. Fabian Stuby at the beginning of the week. Stuby is the medical director of the Berufsgenossenschaftliche Unfallklinik (UKM), which immunizes employees in-house and receives the substance from the Garmisch-Partenkirchen vaccination center. According to his own words, Stuby heard no concrete explanation from him as to why the area is currently on dry land.Currently, you only get doses for second vaccinations, says Stuby. There are still more than 250 employees in his house who want to be explicitly protected, waiting for the redeeming spades. They were told that they should register with the vaccination center and the family doctor. Stuby's résumé: “It's not going as we imagined.” In total, around 2,300 employees earn their money at the largest employer in the district.“A total of around 2,300 employees earn their money with the largest employer in the district.“A total of around 2,300 employees earn their money with the largest employer in the district.
Clinic employees can also be vaccinated outside the home
It was precisely for this reason that the consideration had been given not to initiate a mass migration and not to send this relatively large crowd to the communal vaccination center (CIZ) in Garmisch-Partenkirchen.
The UKM set up a separate position in the house for its people.
Now Stuby says: “We feel a bit abandoned.” The bottleneck through which vaccines trickled to Murnau turned out to be - as in many places - to be narrow.
By Monday, according to Stubys, “just over 900 employees” had been vaccinated once in the house, 530 twice.
300 employees were immunized externally.
Accident clinic Murnau goes to great lengths for its own vaccination center
The clinic went to great lengths to keep a ward free for this purpose as well as a PCR test smear site, provided the equipment and provided staff - six to eight employees, doctors and nurses who “could be deployed elsewhere”. Stuby clarifies: The internally immunized 900 women and men “we could have vaccinated in two weeks, but we did not get a vaccine”. In view of the high logistical effort, they “lived from hand to mouth”. Inevitably, the vaccination center will be closed. Stuby calls the situation "quite frustrating". And: It goes into the money: Clinic managing director Sarah Heinze estimates that the personnel expenditure over three months came to a total of 100,000 to 150,000 euros. In addition, there are costs for rooms and equipment.
Garmisch-Partenkirchen Clinic has the same experience
In Garmisch-Partenkirchen, Frank Niederbühl basically confirms the Murnau experience: In the recent past, no new vaccine deliveries or commitments have been received, explains the clinic's managing director. However, this fact was "announced" and therefore "neither surprising nor dramatic". The doses, of which there are still too few, are currently increasingly flowing into the vaccination center and general practitioners' practices. In the clinic, employees were usually "vaccinated" once a week after the end of the consultation in the reception center by two teams - between 50 and 100 each. At the same time, staff at the CIZ - there were also bundled appointments - or registered with general practitioners. In view of the general shortage, Niederbühl does not want to complain and sees the vaccination rate in his house, which is over 60 percent,"On a good level". Of the approximately 1500 employees, 243 had the vaccine administered in the CIZ and 678 in the clinic, which had received the relevant approval in mid-January. Almost all of these employees have already received two syringes and thus full protection.
District office: deliveries in the last two weeks very declining
Recently, there was actually little going on in this area in the clinics that were supplied with Astrazeneca, Moderna and Biontech.
"The vaccine deliveries have been in decline over the past two weeks," confirms District Office spokesman Stephan Scharf.
They themselves had the capacity to administer the material available in the CIZ.
In addition, "many BGU employees have recently been vaccinated" there.
Thus, explains Scharf, there was an opportunity for all those entitled to the corresponding priority to get their turn;
nobody was disadvantaged.
Basically, the following applies: Only what is available can be distributed. How many doses the CIZ sends to the accident clinic depends, according to Scharfs, on the amount of vaccine that is available. He confirms Stuby's account that the renowned hospital is currently being given doses for second vaccinations. The Garmisch-Partenkirchen Clinic is no different: The situation, says Scharf, is “identical” to that in Murnau.
