Last Friday there was a video conference between the countries and representatives of the Ministry of Health. The topic was the vaccination regulation of the ministry, with which the law is to be regulated in detail. The result was not satisfactory for Haberlander. In a three-page statement to the ministry, the state of Upper Austria calls for the rapid clarification of open questions. Among other things, the letter states that “from our point of view, the implementation of the Covid 19 Vaccination Act does not appear practicable and in no way enforceable”. This applies above all to the controllability of the time intervals between vaccinations – this is “not possible with reasonable effort” for police checks, according to the state side.
“The narrower, the easier”
“In the case of the exceptions, we have asked the federal states from the ministry to list them clearly. The tighter the specifications here, the easier it is to implement them. But unfortunately that was not taken into account,” says Haberlander.
In the current ordinance available to the OÖ Nachrichten, the Ministry lists numerous exceptions: Not subject to compulsory vaccination (in addition to pregnant women and those who have recovered) are transplant and cancer patients as well as people whose health could be endangered by the vaccination – such as allergy sufferers with a hypersensitivity to individual Ingredients or people with an acute flare-up of an inflammatory or autoimmune disease. Also excluded are people suffering from corona or another acute severe febrile illness or infection, multimorbid people and people who have had serious vaccination side effects.
Confirmations for this may be issued by a technically suitable outpatient clinic (for the patients treated there) as well as the locally responsible public health officer and epidemic doctor. Under certain circumstances, no investigation is necessary at all, for example if the reason for the exception is “obvious” based on the documents submitted.
Incidentally, in addition to the vaccines approved by the EU Commission, two Chinese and three Indian products are also recognized as vaccines, but not the Russian vaccine Sputnik.
Upper Austria demands that a nationwide uniform recording system for exception applications be created. The application for the exemption should run through this register, but also the processing by the authorized doctor, the recording of the result and the communication of the result to the citizen. Haberlander clearly sees the federal government on the train. “It cannot be that the countries are programming nine different IT solutions here.”
Source: Nachrichten
