Vaccination: County grateful for numerous offers of support

In a few days, the time has come and the vaccination centre in Korbach will open its doors. Since the state of Hesse issued the order to set up the centre at the end of November, many people have come forward to help with the vaccination campaign against the coronavirus. District Administrator Dr Reinhard Kubat and First District Councillor express their sincere thanks for the enormous commitment.

"We are beyond impressed with how many people have offered to help us in some way with the vaccinations against the coronavirus," the department heads said." Over the past few months, they said, the district has received a flood of offers of help - by phone, email, personal addresses and even through the district's Facebook page. "The feedback puts us in a good position to draw from an extensive pool of personnel that will definitely be needed in the coming weeks and months as part of the vaccination campaign."

In the vaccination centre in Korbach, employees of the district, the cities and municipalities, the Federal Armed Forces, but especially personnel from the pharmaceutical and medical sectors will be on duty in order to be able to implement the vaccinations smoothly. "Our express thanks go to the medical profession, the staff from the medical and pharmaceutical sectors, the forces of the disaster control, the Federal Agency for Technical Relief, the Federal Armed Forces, the security service and exhibition stand builders, all administrative staff of the district and the towns and municipalities - and to the many other people who have supported us in various ways or offered their help." Especially in these difficult times of the Corona pandemic, this is a hopeful sign of solidarity and cohesion.

The vaccinations also pose organisational challenges for everyone involved. The district therefore asks for your understanding if not everyone who has offered their support has yet received a personal response. "The plan is to deposit all offers, requests and applications we have received in a personnel pool and gladly deploy them in the coming weeks and months when more vaccine doses are available and more helpers are needed," says the district's office manager Andreas Mann, who coordinates the deployment of personnel. "We would then approach the individuals in good time to arrange all the details."

District Administrator Dr Kubat and First District Councillor Frese see the start of vaccinations at the vaccination centre as an important step in combating the pandemic: "Although the doses available for Waldeck-Frankenberg for the time being are not yet sufficient for the start of mass immunisation. But we assume that we will be able to vaccinate a large number of members of the prioritised groups with them." It is hoped that through increased production capacities of the already approved vaccines and through the approval of further serums, the available quantity of vaccine doses can soon be noticeably increased, so that the immunisation of the population will make significant progress by the summer.