District launches follow-up platform for those willing to be vaccinated

The vaccinations are an important component in the fight against the Corona pandemic. Vaccination doses left over at the vaccination centre in Korbach are vaccinated in the district on the same day to eligible replacement candidates from Waldeck-Frankenberg. For this purpose, the district has now set up a digital vaccination replacement platform where people can register with immediate effect. The district clarifies: The substitute platform is only intended for remaining vaccination doses. However, the main registration channel for a vaccination is and remains the appointment allocation portal of the state of Hesse.

No guarantee

Through the district's backlog platform, eligible vaccination candidates in prioritisation groups one and two are randomly offered appointments via text message only if there are vaccine doses left, according to the vaccination ordinance. "We have set up this platform so that no vaccination dose is forfeited if someone has not turned up for the appointment or if appointments have also been announced spontaneously. Eligible vaccination-seekers in the relevant prioritisation groups can therefore register for the late list via an online form on the district's website," says District Administrator Dr Reinhard Kubat, explaining the principle.

"However, we cannot guarantee that those who register through it will definitely be contacted and receive an offer." This always depends on how many interested parties have registered on the list of latecomers. "And finally, of course, it depends in particular on how many spontaneous appointments have become available on the day," adds Karl-Friedrich Frese, First District Commissioner and Head of the Health Department.

Notification via SMS to mobile phone

If there are vaccine doses left on a day, the vaccination must also take place very promptly. So anyone who registers online in advance in the list of latecomers must be reachable quickly by mobile phone in order to confirm the possible vaccination appointment. They must also be able to come to the vaccination centre in Korbach as soon as possible. Therefore, the notifications are only sent by SMS to the mobile phone.

Anyone who has registered on the district's website on the follow-up platform and receives such a notification with a possible vaccination appointment on their mobile phone in the future must reply to this SMS with "YES" (in capital letters). The appointment is only valid if the person willing to be vaccinated has received a second SMS as confirmation of the appointment. "More interested persons are notified via the digital follow-up platform than there are remaining doses," is how district fire inspector and head of the vaccination centre Gerhard Biederbick explains the procedure. "Whoever accepts the short-term offer for vaccination first also gets the date finally confirmed." In this way, he says, one can be sure that the remaining doses will be vaccinated in time in any case. It is also important to note that you can only register on the late-arrival platform if you have not yet received your first vaccination.

Furthermore, Biederbick clarifies: "The main registration channel for vaccination is and remains the appointment allocation portal of the state of Hesse." The district's backlog platform only offers the chance to get a vaccination earlier, if necessary. "As a rule, we try to time the vaccine so that, if possible, there are no doses left at the end of a day," Biederbick continued. "However, if this is the case, the new digital platform is a good way to get the doses to eligible people quickly."

If you have received a vaccination via the Waldeck-Frankenberg district's supplementary portal and at the same time have registered for a vaccination with the state of Hesse, you must also deregister for your vaccination with the state of Hesse - either online at www.impfterminservice.de or www.impfterminservice.hessen.de or by calling 116 117 or Tel. 0611 - 505 92 888 - so that the appointment can be given to someone else quickly.