Public health officers call for more staff for health departments – and report abuses in the districts
The medical officers responsible for infection protection in all districts of Berlin – except for Tempelhof-Schöneberg – met on Wednesday afternoon for a joint meeting.
Tagesspiegel reporter Cay Dobberke reports that experts agree that health departments need more staff to respond to special situations such as the spread of the new Corona virus. At present, employees from various departments of the health authorities are being brought together, including gynecologists and pediatricians, for example, according to some offices.
Citizens would have to “Service Limitations” calculate in different areas. For example, fall in Friedrichshain-Kreuzberg the usual school examinations and many office hours.
Also in Marzahn-Hellersdorf school and child examinations were canceled.
Unfortunately, the Health Department is facing special staff shortages Lichtenberg, So far, no successor has been found for the vacant head of office, says Ute Geuss-Fosu from the Department of Hygiene and Infection Protection, who acts as temporary director. In addition, two years ago a job was advertised specifically for protection against infection. Two applicants would have canceled after a short time – one of them only recently when the new virus Covid-19 became known.
The district office center wants to set up its own telephone hotline for dealing with Covid-19 “today or tomorrow” and use four employees for it. The number is not yet known. “We go full steam ahead and throw everything into the processing,” said medical officer Lukas Murajda on Wednesday.
Charlottenburg-Wilmersdorf also plan an additional special number, said the local doctor Nicoletta Wischnewski. Occasionally, people who consider themselves at risk have even appeared in the hallways of the office on Hohenzollerndamm, although this is not a contact point for such cases.
In Steglitz-Zehlendorf are the many inquiries by email and phone “the main problem,” added Eva Bielecki.
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