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Corona test obligation: "Angry, angry and stunned": Bavarian practices are up against the new traffic light law

2021-11-25T09:13:06.207Z


Doctors and dentists are storming a new traffic light law: Since yesterday, they and their staff have been subject to strict testing requirements. But at the same time, many practices can hardly get the necessary rapid tests.


Doctors and dentists are storming a new traffic light law: Since yesterday, they and their staff have been subject to strict testing requirements.

But at the same time, many practices can hardly get the necessary rapid tests.

Munich / Berlin - On the day the SPD, Greens and FDP present their coalition agreement in Berlin, their first law is causing a lot of trouble.

Doctors and dentists are up against the new mandatory test that has been in force for all of them since yesterday.

Because the traffic light coalition has decided with its majority in the Bundestag that even fully vaccinated doctors and practice employees must submit a daily quick test and document this to the authorities.

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Corona in Bavaria: Obligation to test for doctors "absurd" and "unrealistic" - no obligation for patients

Patients, on the other hand, do not have to present a test or vaccination.

"Unvaccinated and untested people can only be treated by those who have been tested," the Bavarian Association of Statutory Health Insurance Dentists (KZVB) and the State Dental Association reckon.

Instead of “3G for patients” there is now “2G plus” for dentists and their employees.

That is "absurd" and "unrealistic" - because there is still no case in Bavaria in which a dentist or employee has infected a patient with the corona virus.

Compulsory quick test: Bavarian health insurance physicians "angry, angry and stunned"

The Bavarian statutory health insurance physicians are also "angry, angry and stunned". The medical profession was completely unprepared for the regulation. In addition, many practices face another problem: they are running out of quick tests. "The test obligations set by the Federal Ministry of Health are apparently already leading to bottlenecks," said the National Association of Statutory Health Insurance Physicians (KBV). In the depots from which the practices order their material, the kits are more and more often not available. No wonder. According to the KZVB, the Bavarian dental practices alone now require around 1.2 million additional tests per month - but the regulation affects all practices in Germany.

The KBV therefore advises members who cannot take tests to simply ignore the law.

A legal obligation that cannot be fulfilled cannot ultimately lead to sanctions.

In addition, the federal government must assume the costs for the tests ordered.

The regulations that are causing so much trouble are part of the new Infection Protection Act, which officially comes from the house of Jens Spahn (CDU).

However, the Federal Minister of Health, who is still in charge, is said to have advised the traffic light parties against the relevant passages.

However, since the SPD, Greens and FDP already have a majority in the Bundestag, they could still pass the law that way.

The number of vaccinations in Bavaria has skyrocketed

According to the new Corona regulation: Letter to Holetscheck

The Bavarian dentists now hope that there will be changes, at least in retrospect. In a letter they ask the current chairman of the conference of health ministers, Klaus Holetschek (CSU), to influence the future federal government. "If the tests run out, I see the security order at risk," warns KZVB chairman Christian Berger in the letter to the Bavarian health minister. He also reckons that “many practices will reduce the number of treatment days so that they have to test less”.

When asked by our newspaper, Holetschek also expressed doubts about the feasibility of the mandatory test.

"Especially the extensive documentation requirements offend everyone who is doing great work in these areas at the moment," says Bavaria's Minister of Health.

“Bureaucracy and pandemic do not go together.” Bavaria is therefore suspending the documentation requirement.

In Hamburg, Baden-Württemberg and Lower Saxony, things are going even further.

The federal states are also temporarily suspending compulsory testing on Wednesday.

Source: merkur

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