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The Bavarian Prime Minister Markus Söder (CSU) has brought up a compulsory vaccination for nurses to protect against the corona virus.
He told the “Süddeutsche Zeitung” that unfortunately there was “too high a refusal to vaccinate among nursing staff in old people's and nursing homes”.
It would therefore be "good if the German Ethics Council made suggestions as to whether and for which groups compulsory vaccination would be conceivable".
After all, it is a matter of life and death in nursing homes.
Since the start of vaccination at the end of last year, facilities have reported a low willingness to vaccinate among nursing staff.
Exact figures are not yet available.
The Federal Association of Private Providers of Social Services reported a few days ago that it did not yet have its own data on the willingness of specialists in geriatric care to vaccinate.
He referred to a survey by the German Interdisciplinary Association for Intensive Care and Emergency Medicine, according to which around half of the nursing staff currently do not want to be vaccinated.
Söder said there was a need for “a major government campaign to promote vaccination readiness, in which role models from art, sport and politics participate”.
You have to counter the many fake news that are spread, something.
Getting vaccinated should be "seen as a civic duty".
"If the old people's and nursing homes are vaccinated, the leaders of the state could also be vaccinated as a role model," said Söder.
So far, "this is not possible because we rightly take care of the most vulnerable citizens first".
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