Starting difficulties with facility-related compulsory vaccination - so far 551 unvaccinated people have been reported in Weilheim-Schongau
Created: 04/03/2022 04:54
By: Sebastian Tauchnitz
Vaccination has been compulsory in the health sector for more than two weeks.
The health department in Weilheim-Schongau is still having problems getting an overview of the situation.
© Marijan Murat / dpa
In the healthcare sector, facility-related vaccination has been compulsory since mid-March.
The health department in Weilheim-Schongau still has problems getting an overview.
District
– The facility-related vaccination requirement in Germany has been in effect for more than two weeks.
Wants to mean that in theory, only people who are fully vaccinated are allowed to work in all facilities in the health sector.
In practice, however, the district health department still has major problems getting an overview at all.
"The reports, which should actually only be entered via an online portal, continue to reach the office in a wide variety of diffuse ways: by post, by e-mail, by fax and in some cases digitally," said the district office on request.
Facility-related compulsory vaccination: underreported cases?
"Random checks" as a possible consequence
A vaccination quota or a number of unvaccinated people who would be affected by the facility-related vaccination obligation in the district and who ultimately face a ban on entering their workplace could therefore not yet be reliably named.
While people in the health system have to live with compulsory vaccination, the rest of the population celebrates Corona "Freedom Day".
In addition, the registration period granted by the government has not yet expired: "We are still expecting late registrations, also due to the registration difficulties and the application for Elster access," the statement from the district office continues.
"Nevertheless, the number of reported cases seems too low, and the consequence would be random checks of the affected facilities," said the health department.
Members of the Landtag of the Free Voters are already calling for the abolition of compulsory vaccination
So far, 370 unvaccinated employees from a total of 28 facilities have been reported digitally.
16 employees reported themselves.
In addition, there would be another 150 employees from 43 facilities and 15 who would have reported themselves.
While the implementation of the facility-related vaccination requirement is not yet fully completed, Susann Enders, member of the state parliament for the Free Voters, is already calling for its abolition in a press release.
“This law is currently exacerbating the nursing shortage and getting the local health authorities in trouble.
They are constantly on fire and have to decide between implementing the law with a ban on entry for unvaccinated nurses and collapsing the system," she writes to the home newspaper.
By the way: Everything from the region is now also available in our regular Weilheim-Penzberg newsletter.
