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Eisenach / Jena / Erfurt (dpa / th) - The Thuringian Midwives Association hopes that midwives will also be quickly taken into account in the order for corona vaccinations.
"That would be very desirable because we are working with a vulnerable group," said state chairwoman Annika Wanierke in an interview with the German press agency with a view to pregnant women.
Wanierke also pointed out that some midwives in clinics were already allowed to register on vaccination lists.
According to the Standing Vaccination Commission (Stiko) at the Robert Koch Institute, the corona vaccines are initially not approved for pregnant women themselves.
Instead, according to the regulation on corona vaccinations of the Federal Ministry of Health, close contact persons of pregnant women belong at least to the group who has a high priority right to the vaccination.
The German Society for Gynecology and Obstetrics, the Federal Working Group of Leading Doctors in Gynecology and Obstetrics and the German Association of Midwives (DHV) demanded that employees in pregnancy care and obstetrics should have this right.
The highest priority, for example, is given to people who are 80 years of age or older, nursing home residents and employees.
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Meanwhile, Wanierke does not want to be carried away by speculation about whether the corona pandemic and the associated conditions and requests to stay at home could lead to an increase in the birth rate.
It is still too early for that.
"I take the position that there will not be a significant increase in the future," said Andrea Lesser with a view to the development in this country.
The chief physician of the clinic for gynecology at the Eisenacher St. Georg Klinikum is also the deputy chairwoman of the Thuringian regional association of the professional association of gynecologists.
Rather, she reckons with the opposite, that family planning is approached much more cautiously.
Fears of loss, unemployment and other existential worries preoccupied many people in the pandemic.
The director of the obstetric clinic at Jena University Hospital, Ekkehard Schleußner, does not expect a baby boom for similar reasons.
«Unsafe times, such as the corona pandemic undoubtedly are, do not lead to more births.
Instead, couples postpone their desire to have children as much as possible, ”says Schleussner.
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German Midwives Association on the requirement to vaccinate obstetricians as early as possible
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Vaccination Ordinance Federal Ministry of Health
STIKO recommendations for Covid-19 vaccination