A day trip to Munich for a Biontech vaccination: This is exactly what a luxury hotel made of sardines is supposed to have made possible for its staff.
The vaccination campaign took place on the airport premises.
Munich Airport - Even if the vaccination campaign goes ahead: Countless Bavarians are still waiting for their first Corona vaccination.
An incident that is said to have taken place at the Airport Hotel Hilton at Munich Airport sounds all the more unbelievable: the Forte Village luxury holiday complex from Sardinia had its entire workforce flown to Munich.
There the over 100 employees received a Biontech vaccination.
The
Süddeutsche Zeitung
reports
.
Munich Airport: Corona vaccination campaign for hotel employees from Italy
The whole thing should have happened on May 21st. Background of the unusual company outing: Allegedly the well-being and safety of the guests, who pay up to 20,000 euros for a week's vacation in the holiday resort. According to a press release, the hotel wants to "enable them to have a unique vacation with total respect for their own health and that of everyone else". Said and done. From the Sardinian airport of Cagliari, the entire resort team made their way to the Bavarian capital, "where they were given the Biontech-Pfizer vaccine,"
Spiegel
quoted
the PR note
as saying
.
Department manager Domenico Bagala describes how exactly this questionable vaccination tourism took place on the Italian television broadcaster Rai.
“At 9 o'clock we took the plane in Cagliari, at 11 o'clock we were in Munich, at 12.30 o'clock it was all over.
Break with Bavarian beer.
We returned to Cagliari at 5 p.m. with our vaccination certificate. ”The Italian day guests didn't even have to leave the airport.
According to the manager, only the first vaccination was planned in Munich.
Corona in Bavaria: Group vaccination for Italians - Munich doctor vaccinates with Biontech
The corona vaccination campaign was carried out by Dr.
Udo Beckenbauer, owner of medical practices in Munich and at Tegernsee.
In an interview with the Italian journalist Francisca De Canadia, the doctor makes it clear: "Regardless of whether you come from Italy or Russia, if you would be a patient with me, I could vaccinate you." Beckenbauer also commented on the collaboration with the luxury hotel.
“There was a contract.
Not with me, but with someone else.
I asked if it was allowed.
Otherwise I would not have done it. "The vaccine was" provided by a third party, "said Beckenbauer of the
SZ.
The doctor allegedly received no fee for his vaccination.
"My medical services have not been billed."
However, it remains a secret who the German business partner of the airport vaccination campaign is.
Balaga only reveals this much about the business transaction: “We have concluded a commercial agreement (...).
The purchase of smocks and gloves, we paid for the entire service. "
Corona vaccination for guests from abroad: Bavarian Ministry of Health comments
But how can it be that day tourists from Italy receive a Biontech vaccination in Munich while countless locals are eagerly waiting for a vaccination appointment? And can foreign visitors in Germany be vaccinated at all? A request from
Spiegel
to the Bavarian State Ministry for Health and Care provides at least the answer to the second question: "People who are in Germany in statutory or private health insurance or who have their place of residence or habitual abode in Germany are entitled to vaccination."
The likelihood that the majority of hotel employees fall into this category - rather unlikely. On the subject of corona vaccination by Bavarian doctors of foreign visitors, a spokesman for the Bavarian Medical Association said: "Basically, the Bavarian doctors in practice vaccinate patients in accordance with the regulations of the CoronaImpfV". This defines, among other things, the vaccination priority, the allocation of appointments and the financing.
Research by the
SZ
showed: According to its own statements, the Bavarian Ministry of Health knows nothing about the process.
His general explanation: "It was left to the doctors to make prioritization decisions themselves according to proper medical judgment." Many questions about the unusual vaccination campaign remain open.
One thing is certain, however: The hotel management is delighted with the successful vaccination campaign: “We believe that this investment is the best that can be done,” says the Rai TV report.
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