Doctors' Association sounds the alarm: important Corona measure "almost no longer takes place"?

Created: 12/25/2021, 8:54 AM

By: Julia Volkenand

The corona situation in Germany is still worrying.

The number of cases could be deceptive, especially over the holidays.

The health authorities are reaching their limits.

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• The Omikron variant is on the advance, just in time for the turn of the year, new measures were decided at the Corona summit *.

• The medical association has now warned that the health authorities are overloaded.

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Berlin - The German Medical Association is sounding the alarm as part of the Corona * pandemic.

The reason for concern is that the German health authorities are hardly able to keep up with their work, reports the dpa.

This also leads to gaps in contact tracing, said the federal chairman of the doctors of the public health service, Ute Teichert, the

.

Corona in Germany: health authorities completely overloaded

“Comprehensive tracking is hardly taking place at all at the moment,” says Teichert.

Several countries such as Baden-Württemberg, Berlin and Hamburg have even completely suspended the search for contact persons.

It is assumed there that people inform themselves what to do in the event of a positive test result or risk exposure.

A spokeswoman for the Berlin health administration rejected Teichert's statement.

"The representation that Berlin is one of the federal states in which the health authorities no longer guarantee contact tracking in the context of the corona pandemic is incorrect," she emphasized.

“The Berlin health authorities carry out contact tracking in accordance with the guidelines of the RKI.

The Bundeswehr is also deployed in eight health offices. "

Doctors' Association: Health authorities cannot keep up with tracing contacts

Teichert told the

that the permanently tense situation in the health authorities was also exacerbating the shortage of staff. "Since the beginning of the pandemic, in addition to fluctuation, I have also seen staff flee from the health authorities," said Teichert. A comparatively poor pay is also to blame for this. "There is a significant wage gap that makes working in the health department unattractive."

Green health politician Janosch Dahmen is concerned about the lack of contact tracking, especially with a view to the Omikron variant.

"It can spread rapidly without you noticing it in time," he told the

.

It is important that contact persons are informed and can be tested.

"If we do not notice early on that the actual number of cases is increasing, politicians will not be able to react appropriately," he warned.