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Tuesday, December 29, 2020
Corona vaccination procedure
Confusing quotes annoy MPs
First, people at particularly high risk should receive one of the few corona vaccines available. But when a member of the Bundestag tries to make an appointment for his 85-year-old mother, he fails. The Federal Ministry of Health transfers responsibility to the federal states.
The health policy spokesperson for the Union parliamentary group in the Bundestag, Karin Maag of the CDU, has criticized the appointment of corona vaccines. “It can’t be that you start a vaccination campaign and then can’t get an appointment,” said the Stuttgart Bundestag member of the “Augsburger Allgemeine”. She tried in vain to book a vaccination appointment for her 85-year-old mother through the national patient service at 116117. She was referred to the cell phone app of the same name. “But dating is not activated in the app yet.” Maag said, “These are rookie mistakes. That bothers me.”
According to the newspaper, the Federal Ministry of Health said that federal states were responsible for vaccinations and appointments. “That is a country issue,” said a spokeswoman. According to her, the federal states can use the appointment system behind the patient number, but it is not necessary. Some countries wanted to send the appointment assignment to their own systems in 116117.
There are currently not enough amounts of vaccine available to vaccinate everyone. Therefore, the Federal Ministry of Health has stipulated by ordinance that people aged 80 and over who are particularly at risk must receive an appointment at the beginning of the vaccination campaign. Furthermore, personnel from professions with a particularly high risk of death or infection must first protect themselves.
Many countries, many ideas
116117 is the central phone number for the German patient service. At 116117.de, the National Association of Health Insurance Statutory Physicians also reports on the progress of the corona vaccination that has started. “Currently, it is not yet possible to schedule vaccination appointments,” the website says, among other things. It is also noted that the allocation of dates is a matter of the country.
According to this, only Baden-Württemberg and Schleswig-Holstein plan to assign appointments via 116117. Lower Saxony and Thuringia, on the other hand, have changed their own numbers for making appointments. Brandenburg, Hamburg and Mecklenburg-Western Pomerania also want to create their own call centers. Appointments in Berlin are only made after a written invitation by letter from the Senate or the Senate Department of Health.
