Deliveries to companies Farms are waiting for more vaccine

Status: 14.06.2021 12:44 p.m.

Company doctors have been able to vaccinate their employees for a week. But the amount of vaccine allocated is nowhere near sufficient. In the second week, fewer vaccine doses are delivered than in the first. From Jens Eberl, WDR BMW has big plans. The automobile manufacturer has set up a total of 29 vaccination lines at its locations in Germany. In Munich alone there are six vaccination lines at two locations. The company said it could do up to 2,500 vaccinations a day. This means that the entire workforce in Germany can be vaccinated within a few weeks. The problem: there isn’t enough vaccine. A little more than 5000 employees were vaccinated in the first week. The situation is similar with the consumer goods manufacturer Henkel. A vaccination center was set up in a company building in the immediate vicinity of the factory premises in Düsseldorf. Up to 1500 employees per week can be vaccinated. In the first week, however, there were only 640.

Fewer vaccine doses in the second week

“Many companies have prepared themselves really well,” says Wolfgang Panter, President of the Association of German Company and Company Doctors (VDBW). “6300 company doctors are available nationwide and have ordered vaccines.” But it is only arriving slowly. The distribution is based on the number of company doctors in the company. Last week there were 102 doses per doctor. This week it should be 84. “Originally, 804 cans per head were planned, but it was clear that this would never be the case,” said Panter. The company doctors are now relying heavily on July. Here one reckons that the vaccination turbo will be switched on. Be prepared.

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High demand from the staff

At Thyssenkrupp, vaccinations are carried out every five minutes at the Essen site, on four vaccination lines, with seven doctors from 8 a.m. to 5 p.m. Should more vaccine be delivered, vaccinations can also be carried out in the evening and on weekends and a 5th vaccination line can also be used. 50,000 people work at Currenta, which manages and operates one of the largest chemical sites. They had ordered 20,000 doses here; if these had arrived, the vaccination would be finished in two to three weeks. But only 3000 came. According to the company, the vaccination lines of Deutsche Telekom have a capacity of up to 10,000 vaccinations per week. Telekom has 89,000 employees in Germany. Due to the approval of priority group 3 by the federal states, vaccinations had already been carried out in the company. The company expects up to 30,000 employees to take advantage of the opportunity to be vaccinated by company doctors. Telekom has set up 18 vaccination lines nationwide for this purpose.

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IT facilitates rapid processes

Many companies have also adapted their IT to vaccinate. For example, BASF has developed its own online booking system together with an IT service provider. Employees can use this to register. The navigation along the entire Impfstraße is completely digitized from check-in to check-out. The vaccination center went into operation on April 14th. Up to and including Friday, around 16,000 BASF employees had received an initial vaccination. Initially, the vaccination sequence prescribed by the state of Rhineland-Palatinate was followed and priority groups II and III were vaccinated. Since June 7, all BASF employees at the Ludwigshafen site have been able to register for a vaccination appointment. At the Vonovia real estate group, a random generator determines who receives a vaccination offer for which location based on the activity performed. First, the random number generator selects employees with direct customer contact.

Prioritization canceled in many places

In the meantime, many companies have completely removed the prioritization. The Deutsche Post says that there is no longer any personal prioritization in the sequence of vaccinations. “Through the choice of location and the allocation of appointments, we ensure that employees in the operational area have at least equal access to operational vaccination appointments,” says the company. At RWE, employees have been able to make appointments using an online tool or by telephone since last Monday. RWE does not plan to prioritize vaccinations. The President of the Association of German Company and Company Doctors has established that every company has a different approach to prioritization. From his point of view, employees who are exposed to a higher risk should still be given preference, for example field staff or fitters; People who have a lot of contacts. Of course, you can’t dictate that, says Panter.

Corona protection in companies Are employers allowed to force vaccination?

Status: 08.06.2021 7:13 p.m.

Since the beginning of the week, company doctors have also been able to vaccinate against Covid-19. But what about legally? Can companies require their staff to be vaccinated? And are they allowed to grant privileges to those who have been vaccinated? From Jens Eberl, WDR The companies have a great interest in preventing infections with the coronavirus and sick leave. This is why many employers want their employees to be vaccinated. With the start of vaccinations by the company doctors, various legal issues between employers and employees come to the fore. An overview.

Can the employer oblige his staff to vaccinate?

Employees only need to be vaccinated if there is a legal obligation to do so. There is no statutory vaccination requirement with Covid-19. “However, special features apply in facilities such as hospitals, prevention or rehabilitation facilities and medical practices,” says the Brühl-based specialist lawyer for labor law, Michael Felser. “They must ensure that all measures required by the state of the art of medical science are taken there to prevent infections and the spread of pathogens. Curiously, however, this does not apply in care facilities for the elderly, although the problem here is likely to be comparable”, so Felser. In the health care facilities mentioned, the employer cannot force employees to vaccinate either. However, he must ensure that non-vaccinated people pose no risk to patients. Patient protection can therefore make it necessary that non-vaccinated people can no longer work in certain areas.

Do employees have to inform the employer about their vaccination status?

Actually, there is no obligation to provide information about the personal vaccination status to the employer. However, the Gelsenkirchen labor lawyer Arndt Kempgens emphasizes that companies have to take corona protective measures for their employees. But they could only do that if the corona vaccination status was known. Kempgens concludes from this that in connection with Corona, under labor law – as an exception – there could be an obligation on the part of employees to notify the vaccination status and, under certain circumstances, to prove it.

Are vaccination incentives such as bonus payments from the employer permitted?

Employers could pay a “vaccination bonus”, for example through a one-off sum of money, vouchers or extra vacation days. Lawyer Felser says: “This is not entirely uncritical, because rewards can exert undue pressure not to exercise one’s rights. For example, courts have only declared rewards for employees who rarely get sick to be admissible under strict conditions.” The trade unions consider incentives for those willing to vaccinate to be permissible. However, they have a say in any case, as such a bonus is subject to co-determination. Kempgens emphasizes, however, that it must be fair: “There must not only be a bonus for those who don’t like vaccinations as an incentive to vaccinate, but if so, then for everyone.”

Can the employer exert “vaccination pressure”? Can the staff defend themselves against this?

If there is no statutory vaccination requirement, the employer cannot exert any pressure, neither with instructions nor with threats such as transfer or even warnings and dismissal. Such measures would be illegal. However, attorney Kempgens reports: “We are currently hearing more and more of such cases in legal practice. Pressure is exerted to convince those unwilling to vaccinate.” In extreme cases, employees can even defend themselves against this with an action for an injunction before the labor courts.

Are professional disadvantages possible if you don’t get vaccinated?

If there is no compulsory vaccination, the employer cannot differentiate according to whether someone is vaccinated or not or whether they have not wanted to be vaccinated in the past, as long as there was no obligation to do so. In medical institutions, however, the employer can reject applicants if they are not vaccinated and do not want to be vaccinated. Lawyer Kempgens, however, restricts: “Unvaccinated employees require other protective measures in the company and also lead to disagreements among the employees. For this reason, non-vaccinated employees will certainly not be preferred in the company in the near future.”

Are employers allowed to distinguish between vaccinated and non-vaccinated people?

“In my opinion, they even have to,” says Kempgens. “As with official measures, labor law restrictions are more difficult to justify for vaccinated people, while labor law protective measures have to be stronger for non-vaccinated people.” Felser believes privileges are conceivable, such as the earlier return of vaccinated employees from the home office to the office or the use of communal facilities such as the canteen. However, the incentive or pressure from such preferences should not be disproportionate.

The sisters said to me: We can do everything to share with you, only we can’t rush in to treat patients together.” . Just hearing that, we felt so grateful. In the past 41 days with over 50 critically ill and critical patients, our ICU has never been so “epic”. Patients spread from area 1 to zone 2, a total of 50 ICU beds. Something is missing, the ICU has it. We live and work with a number of “assets” of up to many billions of dong: High-function ventilators up to more than 50 “em”, ECMO to nearly a dozen staging, Prismaflex to nearly 20 “em”; The artificial kidney machine also reached nearly 20 “em”. We go to bed also worry about the machine… scratch the paint. About 41 days, the ICU alone consumed 150 Oxiris filters, 50 sets of M100s, 10 sets of ECMO and 2000 bags of Prismazon. Thought I saw… terrible! *** So more than a month has passed, time flies. Today, the ICU house is as crowded as a festival, busy and chaotic. There are joys, but many sorrows. This is probably the most memorable time of our lives. Colleague love, comradeship, love, humanity are all here. The pressures and hardships we have never dared to complain or complain about, because I know that our hardships are just a small corner in the fierceness of the COVID-19 pandemic. We here only know how to do our best, wholeheartedly to save the critical COVID-19 cases. And, in the past 1 month, over about 4,000 new cases of this fourth outbreak, many of which are severe, fast-paced, and critical. Many patients are very sick, but have escaped death spectacularly. Tracheostomy for COVID-19 patients at the ICU bed. One thing I am sure of is that my female colleagues have shed tears at least once in the past 41 days. Because they are not the same person, they are also weak and weak. They have an average weight of less than 50kg, a height of less than 1.6m, but their strength is extraordinary and their love is intense. They love their job, love people, love all of this life. They fight with love for their profession, with their duties and responsibilities as doctors. They have overcome many hardships and challenges, although everyone faces the risk of infection and the work intensity is terrible. I love those girls, the golden girls in the COVID-19 village. Small but strong, weak but indomitable. The pandemic is so fierce, we are just a small corner in this pandemic. Do not dare to be pompous. But everything we experienced is very difficult to describe in words. Female friends can burst into tears. Who can bear to think of a baby crying all night because of thirst for milk, when a loved one has to be separated without a date to return, this tear cannot be swallowed. Who can be at ease when the whole family goes to fight the epidemic, leaving a sick and lonely mother in a 12m2 motel. And who can rest easy when both parents rush to the front line, leaving the child bewildered all night. We have chosen to sacrifice many things to contribute a part to the great cause. And male medics behave their way. They ran down to the yard, screaming like a man out of control. What is he shouting, you know? “50 patients! 50 patients! Fight to the end! Fight to the end!” (50 patients related to COVID-19 have died, by noon on June 15, the number of patients who died was 61). God, I felt my eyes go away, and I wanted to hug him and cry. That is the person who always volunteered to bury the ill COVID-19 patients, who had no loved ones by their side at the time of death. Please adhere to 5K and cherish precious vaccines Life is inherently impermanent, leaves fall to the roots. Those unfortunate people, they died without family, but we, the doctors, the nurses were always with them, holding their hands throughout the battle. With a mortality rate of less than 3%. If forced to choose to meet the amount of that 3%. I firmly believe those people, people who have reached an age that is rare, who have tasted all the bitterness of life, who have struggled with cancer. They will be willing to accept the departure. to leave the lushness of life to flourish. Giving life to a 25-week-old baby, giving up the happiness of a couple’s love to a 27-year-old boy, giving up the dedication to science of doctors, or simply giving up smiles to children… They know that we have put our heart and soul into pulling them out of the gate! They knew that we had spent the last 41 days up all night beside them, they knew that the doctor’s eyes were wilted from lack of sleep. Today is the 41st day, I don’t know how many long days and nights will be left, we have to fight the epidemic and win against COVID-19. No one is allowed to fall. We want people to adhere to the 5K, to appreciate the precious doses of vaccines. Get vaccinated if you can, and support the Vaccine Foundation if you can afford it. Let’s join hands to fight the pandemic and spread love. Me and my friends are proud to be soldiers in white at the heart of this storm… Nurse Nguyen Thi Thuong ( Chief Nurse, Intensive Care Unit, Central Hospital for Tropical Diseases )

Donating meals to doctors and nurses of Bac Giang Provincial General Hospital. The Love Meal program, implemented by the Institute of Nutrition together with the Hanoi Professional Chefs Association and the Hanoi Media Association, today started delivering the first nutritious meals to Bac Giang General Hospital. . The first 300 nutritious meals of the program are worth 50,000 VND/serving, including rice soup, nutritional value of about 800-900 kcal. These meals are all prepared by skilled chefs of the Hanoi Professional Chefs Association and its members; All food is provided from partner Mega Market and the National Institute of Nutrition advises on developing the menu. Participating in the preparation of loving meals is a member of the Hanoi Professional Chefs Association such as Sao Mai Cooking Center; Hotel Metropole, Sheraton; Megamaket supermarket; Drum Dong wedding event center… The menu includes main dishes (grilled chicken, steak, fish cakes…) and side dishes (salads, mannequins, desserts, drinks…) are changed daily, ensuring sufficient energy and appetite for the medical staff. Meals are prepared with clean ingredients. The program aims to support the frontline medical staff who are struggling against the epidemic, especially in many localities with high infection rates such as Bac Giang and Bac Ninh, helping to ensure daily nutrition for medical staff. have enough health to work and resistance to disease. The goal of the program is to provide 10,000 slots (and possibly more) in a 20-day period. The meals are nutritious and delicious. Prof. Dr. Le Danh Tuyen, Director of the National Institute of Nutrition – Head of the Organizing Committee of the program said, “The meals of the doctors are calculated to meet the nutritional needs of health workers who work with high High temperatures, extreme temperatures require health, endurance and immunity to infection. Food safety is also of special concern to us. At the same time, the menus are diversely selected for the doctors and nurses to enjoy despite being tired. Therefore, the meals are made from food of clear origin, at the production facility to ensure the requirements and stored and transported in safe temperature conditions, then heated on the spot to serve the customers. doctors on the front lines”. After five days of launching, the program has received the support and contribution of many individuals, groups and businesses. Mr. Ha Hai Doan, Chairman of the Hanoi Professional Chefs Association (HPC), said, “HPC’s members are honored to participate in preparing meals for frontline medical doctors in the fight against the pandemic. The meals are affection and thanks to the doctors and nurses participating in the fight against the epidemic.”

Jeetu, local pharmacist and volunteer doctor in Chogath village, Gujarat state, on May 9. Photo: CNN According to CNN (USA), India’s second COVID-19 wave has devastated major cities and urban centers, depleting hospitals of oxygen and medicine. Meanwhile, in rural areas and remote villages, doctors and clinics are even rarer, leaving residents fighting for their own lives without care. Chogath Village is a rural community in the western state of Gujarat, home to about 7,400 residents, according to the latest census in 2011. Earlier this week, pharmacist Jeetu said there were between 500 and 600 schools. with COVID-19, while deaths also spiked. However, there are no doctors or medical facilities in the nearest village and city more than an hour away. There are medical stations in a number of neighboring towns, but these small facilities also have no longer beds and essential supplies. Amid a spike in morbidity and mortality, Mr. Jeetu was forced to take on the role of a volunteer doctor, using his experience as a pharmacist to provide oxygen and prescribe medicine to the people. . “No one here, no medical center, no doctors, no nurses,” he said. “There are no medical facilities in this village. So I have to deal with the situation in the way I find the best fit.” Dinesh Makwana and his father, Mr. Jivraj, from Chogath village in Gujarat state, India, May 9. Photo: CNN India is coping with an ongoing health crisis everywhere from the capital New Delhi to the smallest villages and towns. The second wave of COVID-19 epidemic has infected millions of people across the country over the past month, with thousands dying every day. As of May 12, India has recorded over 23.3 million cases since the outbreak of the pandemic, being the second most severely affected country in the world, behind only the US, according to University data. Johns Hopkins. In Chogath, the lack of medical assistance forced the desperate villagers to travel to the surrounding towns in the hope of finding a hospital bed. Dinesh Makwana, from Chogath village, said he tried to send his father with COVID-19 to four different hospitals in neighboring towns in the state of Gujarat, but all had no vacancies. With no other choice, Makwana had to bring his father, who had been diagnosed with a serious illness, back to the village. “We were shocked by the second wave. The whole village was shocked, everyone was scared,” Makwana said. “I know many people in the village who died from COVID-19. I thought that my father wouldn’t make it either.” A volunteer cremates people in Chogath village, Gujarat, on May 9. Photo: CNN Pharmacist Jeetu, affectionately known by the villagers as “Jeetu”, gave Makwana’s father some medicine to help stabilize his health. Makwana’s sister and mother are also infected with the SARS-CoV2 virus. Located on the veranda of the house, Makwana’s mother gasped, next to a picture of Hindu gods hanging high on the wall. “I worry about my family,” said Mr. Jivraj, Makwana’s father. “If I die, my family doesn’t know how I will live. I’m not afraid of death, but I’m worried about my wife.” Mr. Girjashankar, 70, helped the villagers cremate the bodies. He filled the tractors with wood and brought them into the village to make a funeral pyre. The village usually records only about 30 people dead each year but over the past month they have cremated 90 bodies. Some families have lost many members because of the SARS-CoV-2 virus. A man was vaccinated with COVID-19 vaccine in Guwahati, India on May 8. Photo: CNN Some experts and government committee members think the second wave of infections may be nearing a peak, meaning that daily new infections will soon drop. However, high mortality is predicted to persist throughout the month. Prime Minister Narendra Modi’s government has worked to respond to this crisis by sending oxygen sources to many states and distributing medical supplies from abroad. But supply shortages mean most of the support will be shipped to the most densely populated cities with the highest number of infections, leaving villages like Chogath on their own when SARS-CoV-2 virus. attack of households. “The village doesn’t get government support, there are no doctors, there is no way to go to major hospitals,” said Girjashankar. “No one is looking at this place, there are no government employees to support us.” Jeetu said he was “very angry” because the village lacked help from the authorities. “But what can we do?” He said. “We don’t have a solution, the people here are very poor.” Meanwhile, the villagers have no choice but to wait for help and pray they will recover. “All the villagers are scared. For the past 15 to 20 days, no one comes out of the house. Everyone was very worried,” Makwana said.

By C. Haentjes, C. Huppertz, I. Dippmann and S. Kloppmann, mdr The Heart Center Leipzig is one of the leading specialist clinics for heart medicine in Europe. But staff is so tightly planned here that emergencies often cannot be accepted, say various doctors at the clinic mdr news magazine Exakt. You want to remain anonymous; they fear losing their jobs – and legal consequences. The doctors report, among other things, that almost every third day the emergency control center should be signaled that they should not be approached. “It is the case that our intensive care unit cannot fulfill its care assignment for a large part of the time and has to cancel the admission of acutely ill patients,” says a doctor who wants to remain anonymous. “We have to cancel patients who have an appointment for a routine admission and put them off at some point without looking at them. It’s a lottery if I don’t know the patient.” There are always patients who die on the waiting list, said the doctor.

For treatment in another federal state

This is not only the case at the previous highs of the corona pandemic – it also occurs in normal emergencies: heart attacks, acute cardiac insufficiency or pulmonary embolisms. Such emergencies require immediate treatment or valuable time is lost. For example in the case of a so-called aortic dissection: a cardiac surgical emergency in which the chance of survival drops by five percent every hour. A clinic in Leipzig asked the heart center about this. Without success, says another doctor, who also wants to remain anonymous. “This patient could not be admitted to the clinic because it was not possible to operate or monitor an operated patient. For personal reasons. He had to be transported far away. To another federal state.” mdr Exactly ask at the clinic. She replies in writing: “We are aware of the case. This transfer was (…) rejected by us due to the situation. (…) We had a very busy intensive care unit that day.” The clinic admits that there have also been cancellations from the rescue control center, and at the same time emphasizes that this only affected non-life-threatening emergencies. The clinic denies all other allegations made by the doctors. Any capacity bottlenecks are due to the corona pandemic. But there have long been disputes – also in court – about overtime regulations.

Further downsizing planned?

Across from mdr Exactly the heart center confirms plans to cut staff. There are plans of this kind in other Helios clinics as well, says the chairwoman of the Marburger Bund doctors’ union, Susanne Johna: “In fact, we hear from our members in almost all regional associations that the Helios group should cut medical positions. It seems that way That Helios plans to cut about ten percent of the doctor’s positions in the company. And that means that the doctors who stay will have to work even more overtime. ” Obviously, it’s about profitability. Internal reports that mdr Exactly show that the heart clinic’s profit in the Corona year 2020 was 23 million euros before interest and taxes. That is an increase of 43 percent compared to 2019. The shareholders are promised higher dividends. Nevertheless, cuts are also planned in the Leipzig Heart Center. According to information from mdr Exactly as many doctors as possible should reduce their working hours to 95 percent. Fixed-term contracts are reported to expire in April. That would be in the middle of the third corona wave – i.e. exactly when the need for staff is particularly high. The clinic, however, speaks of June.