At the event “Hospice and palliative care in the nursing home” in Graz Castle St. Martin, the words “angel of death” and “coffin lanes” are said to have been used in connection with unvaccinated nursing staff and nursing homes affected by the pandemic.
“I regret that those attending this meeting felt my comments to be inappropriate. In a closed setting, I was perhaps thinking too flippantly about the compulsory vaccination for employees in nursing homes. Bogner-Strau said in the statement submitted to the APA: “Last year, a nursing home worker told me that she felt like an ‘angel of death’ because she often had little or no protective equipment and was afraid of bringing the infection into the nursing home. This thought, combined with the conviction that the vaccination is the best protection, I apparently misunderstood shared, “said the landlady.
Their request is that elderly people who are under protection, as well as relatives, can expect the best possible protection in the nursing home. “In a completely different place I made a comparison with the Scandinavian health system and said that unlike there, nursing homes are often ‘dead ends’ with us. I regret the pun that followed and I apologize,” concluded Bogner-Strau.
The Styrian FP apparently does not want to stop with an apology and would like to question the state councilor in the state parliament session next Tuesday. Bogner-Strau abused, among other things, unvaccinated care workers, said club chairman Mario Kunasek. Bogner-Strau apparently wanted to distract “from their complete failure in the health and care sector and therefore blames the care staff, who do incredible things every day under the most difficult of conditions.”
Source From: Nachrichten
