"It's brutal": Bayerische Klinik will lose up to 80 employees - because of compulsory vaccination
Created: 01/14/2022Updated: 01/14/2022 05:30
By: Michael Acker
Employees in health and care facilities must prove by March 15 that they have been vaccinated or have recovered or cannot be vaccinated for medical reasons.
That's what the legislature wants.
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By March 15, healthcare workers must prove that they have been fully vaccinated against Corona or have recovered from Covid-19.
Otherwise they are not allowed to resume their work.
District
- The new provision in the latest version of the Infection Protection Act poses considerable personnel problems for the Ebersberg district clinic, nursing homes, outpatient nursing services and other areas in the healthcare sector - and this at a time when the staff has already been overburdened for months due to the corona and the labor market for nursing professions is swept empty.
Stefan Huber, district manager of the district clinic, certainly does not belong to the naysayer category.
But what is rolling towards his house makes him anything but optimistic about the near future.
Of the 1,100 hospital employees, around 150 are neither vaccinated nor recovered, 80 people, including doctors, come from the 520-strong nursing division.
"I reckon that we could lose 50 to 80 employees because of the vaccination requirement.
It's brutal," says Huber.
Kreisklinik Ebersberg asks about the vaccination status of its employees at the end of the month
On January 31, the clinic will query the vaccination status of its staff, the managing director announced.
By March 15, the house would then have to report the names of the employees who had not provided proof to the health department.
This in turn then issue a ban on employment and entry for those affected, inform the clinic of this.
“We then have to implement it,” says Huber.
He would like to have numerous one-on-one meetings over the next few weeks in order to be able to convince one or the other employee of the vaccination.
He himself could not understand the vaccine skepticism.
"We experience here day after day that the vaccination protects against severe corona courses, that it saves lives."
Ebersberg: Clinic manager thinks vaccination is only wrong for nurses
Nevertheless, Huber believes that compulsory vaccination only for nursing staff is wrong.
This is a "political mistake" because it is unfair.
It hits an area that is already most affected by the pandemic and leads to a further aggravation of the shortage of nursing staff.
"We are all in this pandemic, if vaccination is mandatory, then for everyone," is his opinion.
How will the clinic fill the vacancies?
"It's difficult," says Huber.
He gets applications from Africa and the Middle East.
“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 might be able to recruit new workers here.”
BRK is also worried about employees: Some will say goodbye to nursing
Elisabeth Seibl-Kinzlmaier, district manager of the BRK, which also operates an outpatient nursing 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 fears losing staff on March 15.
"I very much hope to be able to persuade all skeptics to change their minds," says the managing director, who wants to speak to everyone personally.
She finds compulsory vaccination to be “difficult”.
On the one hand, she understands that vulnerable groups must be protected, on the other hand, she finds it questionable to only impose vaccination on a certain professional group.
"One or the other will say goodbye to nursing," fears Elisabeth Seibl-Kinzlmaier.
Ebersberg recently hit the headlines negatively: Expired Biontech vaccine was vaccinated here.
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