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Kaiserslautern (dpa / lrs) - The Rhineland-Palatinate Prime Minister Malu Dreyer (SPD) has emphasized the great importance of corona vaccinations for nurses and doctors in the state's clinics.
"The staff in the hospitals has been doing extraordinary things for months," she said on Thursday at the start of the vaccinations in the West Palatinate Clinic in Kaiserslautern.
She met with Health Minister Sabine Bätzing-Lichtenthäler (SPD) on site.
“It is very important to us that we protect those who protect others and stand up for us,” said Dreyer.
In Rhineland-Palatinate, the vaccination of medical staff in the large coordinating hospitals started on Wednesday.
Other hospitals that are particularly burdened with the treatment of Covid 19 patients should be added later, it said.
Since December 29th, it is also possible to vaccinate in old people's and nursing homes where there is a willingness to vaccinate.
Initially - when the vaccine was very limited - inpatient care facilities in particularly affected regions were offered a vaccination.
The vaccinations continue to run through the turn of the year.
"We will not lose any time and vaccinate as many people as possible over the next few days, despite the holidays and the New Year," said the medical director of the West Palatinate Clinic, Christian Mönch.
"We have waited a long time for today and I am happy and grateful that our employees are allowed to receive this gift of vaccination."
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Bätzing-Lichtenthäler and Dreyer thanked the employees of the West Palatinate Clinic for their commitment.
"Especially over the holidays it shows once again what important work you do and what personal limitations are associated with your work," they said to them.