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After North Rhine-Westphalia's Prime Minister Armin Laschet campaigned for it on the “Maischberger” program, vaccination doctor Christian Meyer is now allowed to use zero residual syringes when vaccinating against Covid-19.

With these particularly finely dosed syringes, it is possible to take seven instead of six doses from a Biontech ampoule and in this way to vaccinate around 15 percent more people with the existing vaccine.

Meyer is one of the leading vaccinators in the Rheinisch-Bergisches Kreis and has been calling for these syringes to be used for months in order to be able to vaccinate more people.

He had bought these through the district in the Netherlands, but the North Rhine-Westphalian Ministry of Health initially forbade him to use them.  

Now the U-turn.

In the ARD program “Maischberger” on Wednesday, Prime Minister Laschet himself addressed the topic: “When asked how many syringes can you draw?

There is someone in Bergisch Gladbach who draws seven from an ampoule.

So we said: Do it! ”Said Laschet.

Even at the objection of moderator Sandra Maischberger - “But it wasn't like that in the beginning” - the Prime Minister added: “Yes, but you have to be pragmatic and say: Do it!

If you can, if it is responsible, do it.

Don't always ask, not all the bureaucracy. "

Use is your own responsibility

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Then the district administrator of the Rheinisch-Bergisches Kreis, Stephan Santelmann, who supports the vaccination doctor, asks the NRW Ministry of Health again and this confirmed that the vaccination doctor can now use the syringes.

However, independently. 

"I'm looking forward to it first," said Meyer WELT.

"It was a tough road." 70 vaccine doses were thrown away every day, so to speak, says the doctor.

Because only in exceptional cases can seven doses be taken from an ampoule with normal syringes.

The syringes have been used again in his vaccination center since Thursday afternoon.

Meyer cannot properly explain the turnaround.

The Ministry of Health had banned him from using it because it questioned whether the syringes are EU-compliant.

Now the doctor is relieved for the time being - except for using it on his own responsibility.

"In my opinion, that means I take the full risk."