County for vaccinations in centres and with doctors

In order to cope with the pandemic, as many people as possible must be vaccinated promptly - at the GPs and at the vaccination centre.


12 April 2021 by Ann-Katrin Heimbuchner

The pandemic continues to pose enormous challenges to public and private life. In order to be able to cope with these, numerous Hessian districts and independent cities believe that as many people as possible must be vaccinated as soon as possible - both in the vaccination centres and in the general practitioners' practices. They state this in a joint letter to the Hessian Minister of State, Peter Beuth. The district of Waldeck-Frankenberg also supports this demand.

"The vaccinations are an essential building block for the return to a new normality. However, in order for the strategy to work in the best possible way, vaccinations must now be continued both by the general practitioners and in the vaccination centres," says First District Commissioner and Head of Health of the Waldeck-Frankenberg district Karl-Friedrich Frese. "Only by combining both ways can we bring a high tempo to the vaccination campaign." He very much welcomes the fact that GPs are now finally being involved in the process. Nevertheless, the capacities of the vaccination centres, which have not yet been exhausted to any extent, must be used much more on a permanent basis.

"We could vaccinate at least 1,000 people per day in Waldeck-Frankenberg in six vaccination lines, rather more," Frese continues. So far, however, the vaccination centres could not even show their full scope of work and services due to a lack of vaccine. "We are strongly positioned and well organised here and can vaccinate large groups of people quickly and efficiently. The prerequisite for this is that we finally get more vaccine available."

Together with representatives of the Bergstrasse, Fulda, Marburg-Biedenkopf and Vogelsberg counties as well as the cities of Darmstadt and Wiesbaden, the county has therefore written to Hesse's Minister of State Peter Beuth. The letter states: "It is not a question of general practitioners or vaccination centres, but we strongly advocate that, in order to achieve herd immunity quickly, both vaccination centres and doctors should be adequately equipped with vaccine in order to bring the vaccine to the people as quickly and effectively as possible.