Compulsory vaccination: District clinic will lose up to 80 employees

Created: 01/12/2022, 03:31 PM

From: Michael Acker

Employees in health and care facilities must provide evidence by March 15 that they have been vaccinated, have recovered, or cannot be vaccinated for medical reasons.

This is how the legislature wants it.

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By March 15, healthcare workers must prove to their employer that they have been fully vaccinated against Corona or have recovered from Covid-19.

Otherwise they are not allowed to resume their work.

This has bad consequences for the district clinic and other employers.

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- The new provision in the latest version of the Infection Protection Act confronts the Ebersberg district clinic, nursing homes, outpatient nursing services and other areas in the health care system with considerable personnel problems - and this at a time when the staff has already been overloaded for months due to corona and the job market for nursing professions is swept empty.

Stefan Huber, district manager of the district clinic, certainly does not belong to the category of nonsenseers.

But what is rolling towards his house makes him anything but optimistic about the near future.

Of the 1,100 employees at the hospital, around 150 have neither been vaccinated nor recovered, 80 people, including doctors, come from the nursing division, which has 520 employees.

“I reckon that we could lose 50 to 80 employees because of the mandatory vaccination.

It's brutal, ”says Huber.

At the end of the month, Kreisklinik queries its employees' vaccination status

On January 31, the clinic will inquire about the vaccination status of its staff, announced the managing director.

By March 15, the house must then report the names of the employees who have not provided evidence to the health department.

This in turn would then issue an employment and access ban for those affected, informed the clinic.

“We then have to implement that,” says Huber.

He would like to have numerous one-on-one discussions in the next few weeks so that he or she might still be able to convince one or the other of the employees about the vaccination.

He himself could not understand the vaccination skepticism.

"We experience here day after day that the vaccination protects against severe corona courses, that it saves lives."

The clinic's managing director thinks that a vaccination requirement for nurses is wrong

Nevertheless, Huber believes that mandatory vaccinations are only wrong for nursing staff.

This is a "political mistake" because it is unjust.

It hits an area that is already most affected by the pandemic and leads to a further exacerbation of the shortage of nurses.

"We are all involved in this pandemic, if vaccination is compulsory, then for everyone," is his opinion.

How will the clinic fill the vacant positions?

“Difficult,” says Huber.

He got applications from Africa and the Middle East.

“The people in these regions are watching the debate in Germany very closely.

We look at the applicants.

If their training is recognized and they speak sufficient German, we may be able to recruit new workers here. "

BRK is also worried about employees: some will say goodbye to care

Elisabeth Seibl-Kinzlmaier, district manager of the BRK, which also operates an outpatient care service in the district - with 15 employees, also knows that the market has been swept empty.

Not all of them have been vaccinated or recovered.

Like Huber, Seibl-Kinzlmaier also fears losing staff by March 15th.

"I very much hope to be able to change the mind of all skeptics," says the managing director, who wants to speak to everyone personally.

She feels that the compulsory vaccination is "difficult".

On the one hand, she understands that vulnerable groups have to be protected; on the other hand, she finds it questionable to only impose the compulsory vaccination on a certain professional group.

"One or the other will say goodbye to care," fears Elisabeth Seibl-Kinzlmaier.

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