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Magdeburg (dpa) - Saxony-Anhalt's Minister of Health Petra Grimm-Benne has spoken out against compulsory vaccination for nurses.
The SPD politician said in Magdeburg on Tuesday that she still thinks it is better to rely on education and voluntariness.
It can already be seen that the initial reluctance of many doctors and nurses is weakening in view of the experience with the vaccinations.
They get a reflection that the willingness to vaccinate in nursing care in Saxony-Anhalt is now up to 75 percent of the workforce.
Previously, Bavaria's Prime Minister Markus Söder brought a corona vaccination requirement for employees in old people's and nursing homes into play.
If you hear and read that few nurses want to be vaccinated there, you have to discuss it.
“The German ethics council should deal with it,” said the CSU politician in the ZDF “morning magazine”.
However, representatives of the nursing staff also reject such an obligation.
More information is needed about the vaccinations and the effects, said a spokeswoman for the Southeast regional division of the professional association for nursing professions.
According to its own statements, the association represents around 20,000 carers nationwide, around 1,000 of them in Saxony, Saxony-Anhalt and Thuringia.
Coercion may achieve the opposite of what is desired.
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In Saxony-Anhalt, according to the authorities, more than 24,000 people have been vaccinated against the corona virus so far (as of January 12).
Almost half of them, almost 12,000, were given the vaccine for professional reasons.
In addition to nurses and hospital employees, according to the priorities set by the federal government, people over the age of 80 are so far entitled to vaccinate because they have a significantly higher risk of developing serious Covid-19.
Communication from the regional association of the German professional association for nursing professions for Saxony, Saxony-Anhalt, Thuringia and Bavaria