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Sign in a Thuringian doctor's practice (archive picture): Patients may not be refused due to a lack of vaccination
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According to a report, medical practices are not allowed to make the so-called 3G rule a prerequisite for medical treatment.
"Contract doctors are obliged to treat patients," said a spokesman for the Federal Ministry of Health of "Welt".
In the corona pandemic, they should "not make treatment dependent on compliance with the 3G rule."
The Rhineland-Palatinate Ministry of Health had previously announced, according to “Welt”, that complaints about “practices in 3G or 2G operation” had already been submitted in the outpatient sector.
3G stands for "vaccinated, recovered or tested".
The rule means that a full vaccination against the coronavirus, a recovery from Covid-19 or a negative test is required to enter a location.
With the 2G rule, only those who have been vaccinated and those who have recovered are admitted.
Regarding access to medical practices, the National Association of Statutory Health Insurance Physicians noted that there are alternatives to the 3G or 2G rule for their safe operation: "The practices may organize organizational arrangements that unvaccinated and untested patients are treated, for example, during specially set office hours," said a spokesman for the "world".
The desire to protect other patients, the practice staff and the doctors themselves is understandable and understandable: "But doctors cannot make treatment dependent on compliance with the 3G rule," said the spokesman for the National Association of Statutory Health Insurance Physicians.
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