The Federal Association of Private Providers of Social Services has asked the Hamburg Senate to suspend the corona vaccination requirement for employees in care facilities. “The facility-related vaccination requirement is completely out of date and must be completely suspended immediately,” said the state chairman of the association, Frank Wagner, on Thursday. The care facilities in Hamburg must be protected from having to check all the vaccination cards of the employees again.
According to the Infection Protection Act, the facilities are obliged to report to the health authorities by October 1st which of their employees have already received a booster vaccination. “This is blind activism, largely ineffective and superfluous,” said Wagner. For the care facilities, this is associated with a high level of bureaucracy. More and more districts and even federal states such as North Rhine-Westphalia have already suspended compulsory vaccination before it expires completely at the end of the year.
The Federal Association of Private Providers of Social Services is, according to its own information, with more than 13,000 active member institutions – over 400 of them in Hamburg – the largest lobby of private providers of social services in Germany. Among other things, the members are active in outpatient and inpatient care, assistance for the disabled and in child and youth welfare.