In talks with the German Ethics Council, Markus Söder asks to look again at a vaccination requirement for nurses.
This had previously been rejected by the health ministers.
Munich - In view of the rapidly increasing Corona * numbers, the Bavarian Prime Minister Markus Söder * (CSU) has called on the German Ethics Council to reconsider compulsory vaccination for nurses.
"I would ask the Ethics Council to fundamentally deal with the question of compulsory vaccination again," he said on Saturday, November 6th, to the newspapers of the Funke media group.
Söder addresses the request to the Ethics Council: Member Henn agrees to the request
In an interview with the
Rheinische Post,
Ethics Council member Wolfram Henn
clearly expressed his approval of compulsory vaccination for nursing staff.
"It is completely unacceptable and unprofessional if people who work with vulnerable groups on a daily basis are not vaccinated," the human geneticist told the newspaper on Saturday.
"Anyone who takes on a job in this highly sensitive area makes a conscious decision to take on special responsibility." Wolfram Henn had previously spoken out in favor of compulsory vaccination for teachers and daycare staff.
Söder sends request to the Ethics Council: Health ministers reject compulsory vaccination
After two days of deliberations, the federal and state health ministers approved an expansion of mandatory testing in old people's and nursing homes last Friday. However, they refused to be vaccinated. Federal Health Minister Jens Spahn (CDU) justified this with the fact that there was concern that nurses would no longer come to work.
The Berlin legal scientist Christian Pestalozza, on the other hand, considers a general compulsory vaccination against the coronavirus to be urgently necessary. “Since it seems that not enough people have voluntarily been vaccinated, I consider this step to be inevitable,” Pestalozza, who is a member of the ethics committee of the state of Berlin, made
clear
to the
editorial network Germany (RND)
. The necessary, fundamental rights prerequisites for a general compulsory vaccination are therefore already in place: "The measure pursues a legitimate goal, is suitable, necessary and reasonable," he said.
Markus Söder (CSU) and his cabinet recently decided to tighten the corona rules.
This comes into force today and will have an enormous impact * on the people in Bavaria from Sunday.
(afp with le)