Computers are still missing
The new vaccination base in the Ortenau district is scheduled to open in Hall 4 in Offenburg next Monday.
Photo: Michael Brock
It has only been a few weeks since the local vaccination center at the Messe Offenburg ice rink was closed. From next Monday, November 22, the so-called area vaccination base will open approximately at the same location, only 50 meters away when the crow flies, in Hall 4 of the exhibition. Provided that the necessary hardware and software have been delivered from Stuttgart by then.
Because the laptops and software needed to record vaccination data have long been returned to the state government. Now one is waiting for the necessary equipment to be delivered again.
The mission of the new base is in no way different from its much larger predecessor at the ice rink, which, with the support of the Maltese, supplied hundreds of people who wanted to be vaccinated with all common vaccines seven days a week.
Biontech, Moderna and Johnson & Johnson are also preparing the usual vaccination doses for the new hastily organized approach to the district-wide Covid-19 vaccination center, but this time it is administered by mobile vaccination teams of the German Red Cross. A total of six alleged vaccination lines should be operational in the hall by next Monday.
High costs justify closing the old vaccination center
“Until September 30, we had a coherent picture around the corner,” Diana Coleman said Tuesday during a press conference. Then the vaccination centers were closed and now everything is different. 300 to 400 people wanting to be vaccinated were smuggled through there every day.
However, the costs were prohibitive, so the decision to close them was understandable, said Coleman, who was already in charge of the Offenburg vaccination center in the area.
The district was to continue to be staffed with mobile vaccination teams docked at the Ortenau Clinic. Coleman explained that by the Ministry of Social Affairs, these teams are tasked with driving primarily to nursing homes and seniors’ homes, providing booster vaccinations there and maintaining low-threshold vaccination offerings – in Ortenaukreis, Freudenstadt and Emmenden. In the meantime, the difference has been increased to ten, but it has long been operating within capacity again. “We were literally overrun everywhere.”
Thus the increase was achieved, first with five mobile vaccination teams and now with ten. Last Friday, the district decided to build a reliable vaccination address again. The District Vaccination Base (HIS) will now be established as soon as possible. The vaccination should be done seven days a week between 3 and 8 p.m.
“We are all pleased that the state government has finally responded to the out-of-control epidemic by increasing the number of mobile vaccination teams and establishing the vaccination base,” said Joachim Goetz as a representative of the specialists.
Early in the summer, doctors feared a bad fall and demanded that vaccination centers continue on a lower basis. With the vaccination base you have it now. It is important, however, that those who wish to be vaccinated and who have already made appointments with GPs should continue to keep them. “It helps us here on site when these people can be treated in the usual place.”
