German companies are preparing to vaccinate their own workforce

German companies are increasingly preparing to vaccinate their own employees and thus want to increase the vaccination rate in Germany. At BASF’s Ludwigshafen site, a model project in the state of Rhineland-Palatinate for corona vaccination of its own employees started on Wednesday; at Volkswagen in Saxony, company doctors have been vaccinating the local workforce for around two weeks – a model project together with the German Red Cross.

BASF you are “proud”to be able to help to increase the vaccination speed and to relieve the health system, it says at the chemical company. Within a few weeks, be a “Vaccination center including the necessary IT set up” been. In doing so, the company adheres to the requirements of the federal and state governments on the sequence of vaccinations and the selection of the vaccine, which is carried out centrally.

VW put its own vaccination vehicle into operation in Zwickau – a converted VW Grand California. Since then, several company doctors and nurses have not only looked after the employees on site, but also travel to other locations such as Chemnitz and Dresden. The automaker also wants his own “Contribute and support the implementation of the vaccination strategy”.

If the German company doctors have their way, the vaccination in the company could be done much more quickly and comprehensively. At the beginning of March, the Association of German Company and Works Doctors (VDBW) complained that the vaccinations “Only sluggish” went ahead – company doctors could vaccinate more than five million employees a month. “We company doctors have the know-how to vaccinate large groups.”

The company doctors could not only build on their experience with large-scale flu vaccinations, but also on the existing organizational structures for vaccinations in the company. But this is necessary “Urgent regulations from politics”demanded the association.

The “Frankfurter Allgemeine Zeitung” asked the 30 DAX companies how they are doing, among other things, to vaccinate the workforce. Almost everyone is preparing to have their employees vaccinated by company doctors on a broad basis.

At Allianz, for example, 27 vaccination lines at 15 central and large production sites should be ready to go from the second half of April. Bayer also hopes to be able to start vaccinations in the second quarter, as the newspaper reported on Wednesday. The majority of the employees in the Helios clinics of the health care group Fresenius have already been vaccinated, and these are medical personnel with a higher priority.

Other companies point to the missing vaccine. Continental company doctors could be loud “DOES” in this country vaccinate 1000 employees every day as soon as the vaccine is available. Under these conditions, Deutsche Telekom could vaccinate 80 percent of its approximately 100,000 employees in Germany within eight weeks.

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