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Hamburg (dpa / lno) - Left and FDP in the Hamburg citizenship criticize the personnel and technical equipment of the health authorities in the districts.

It was “a step in the right direction” that the staff for corona contact tracking had been increased, said the health policy spokesman for the left-wing group, Deniz Celik, of the German press agency.

However, according to the Senate's answer to his small question, "a large part of the public health service is drawn upon," which is then missing.

The FDP MP Anna von Treuenfels-Frowein, who had inquired about the digital equipment of the offices, spoke of "fatal" differences in the districts.

Celik said that because of the staff employed in contact tracing, "as a consequence, other very important offers such as school entrance examinations would be severely restricted or completely canceled".

Of the almost 12,300 new corona infections detected in Hamburg in December, a good 15 percent have information about the location of the infection, according to the Senate's answer, and almost 11 percent also about the infection environment.

There are currently 814 people working on contact tracking in the health departments of the seven districts.

Staff from other departments of the health department, the district office or other authorities will continue to be deployed “in order to be able to process the cases in Hamburg quickly and to quickly counteract the spread of the virus,” writes the Senate.

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The proportion of these seconded employees fluctuated strongly among the districts between 7.24 percent in Harburg and 79.65 percent in Wandsbek.

Around 111 Bundeswehr soldiers are also involved in tracking contacts.

To relieve the health authorities, the Senate had set up the Central Support Unit Contact Tracking (ZUK), which is supposed to take over simpler cases.

The Senate announced that there are now 172 full-time employees, including 65 employees from other departments.

The largest share is provided by the tax authorities with 24 employees, followed by the police with 17.

He also thinks it is problematic that despite the intention to create new jobs permanently, the proportion of temporary positions is very high, said Celik.

"It is precisely because the demand is so great that we need permanent positions in order to increase the attractiveness and prevent high fluctuation."

According to the Senate, more than 37 full-time positions are currently to be filled in the health departments - for the most part, nursing staff, but also doctors, are wanted.

Von Treuenfels-Frowein criticized the "fatal" differences in the equipment with communication technology in the individual districts.

"Ironically in the Corona high-risk area Mitte, only 5 out of 190 employees can use the latest generation of company mobile phones, in Nord and Bergedorf it is less than 10 percent each," she told the dpa.

With 30 percent, almost a third of the employees in Mitte do not have their own laptop and can therefore not work in the home office.

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"The fact that the facilities are so poor in the SPD and green-led districts contrasts dramatically with the loud demands for a right to work from home by the Social Democrats and Greens," said the FDP MP.

In view of the pandemic, it is overdue, "that Senator of Health (Melanie) Leonhard (SPD) and District Senator (Katharina) Fegebank (Greens) finally carry the office standards of the 21st century across the board into the Hamburg health administration with the district heads."

Small written question from Celik

Written small request from Treuenfels