The facility-related vaccination requirement is being postponed!
Originally, employees in nursing homes and clinics were supposed to have to prove their vaccination status from March 16 before they could come to work. The health authorities are now putting a stop to this.
Because: The authorities do not see themselves in a position to set up a corresponding control system by March 15 and to examine the many expected individual cases.
It is expected that on average five to ten percent of the employees will have no clear evidence or no complete vaccination protection, said Elke Bruns-Philipps from the Federal Association of Doctors in the Public Health Service of the Düsseldorf “Rheinische Post”: “This is a significant burden with the Examination of each individual case, as is now planned, which the health authorities cannot cope with in a timely manner.”
That is why the health authorities themselves want to set a new deadline for submitting vaccination documents. Hearings are also planned to examine individual cases, explains Bruns-Philipps.
In plain language, this means that the institution-related vaccination obligation will take effect on paper from March 16th, but in reality the obligation to provide vaccination certificates in nursing homes and clinics will only come into force much later. The employees are allowed to continue working for the time being.
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The health department decides “on how to proceed and the measures to be taken at its discretion,” a spokesman for the Federal Ministry of Health told Business Insider.
Patient advocates are calling for a legal respite
The Patient Protection Foundation is calling for an official postponement of the corona vaccination requirement for employees of clinics and nursing homes.
“The vaccination requirement for medical and nursing professions must not be introduced with a crowbar,” said the board member Eugen Brysch. Health Minister Karl Lauterbach (58, SPD) must take the local concerns seriously. “Health authorities, regulatory authorities and employers do not see themselves in a position to implement the mammoth work by March 15 without serious distortions,” said Brysch. Up to 200,000 people in need of care and the sick are in danger. “A delay is urgently needed.”
The law passed by the Bundestag and Bundesrat in December stipulates that employees in facilities with vulnerable people such as nursing homes and clinics must prove by March 15, 2022 that they have been vaccinated against Corona or have recovered from an infection – or submit a certificate that they cannot be vaccinated. Employers must inform the health authorities if this does not happen. They then have to carefully examine each individual case.