“I don’t have anyone who can drive me.”
She knows the bus station well. She has already got on here many times. But she has never driven the 20 kilometers to Pößneck, she says. Yes, she was there once, she remembers. That must have been for the state horticultural show 20 years ago. Ruth Weschenfelder points up to the monitors. “There, Pößneck, 11:45 am on the three, there it is.”
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She goes to the bus platform, gets in and sits down. There was no question that she would take the bus to Pößneck alone to get vaccinations. “I don’t have anyone who can drive me.” Nevertheless, she wanted to get vaccinated as soon as possible. Your pancreas is no longer working properly. “I can’t wait there.” She is not afraid of the vaccination. “After all, I used to prick myself,” she says. “I was a community nurse in Lauscha.”
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At the bus station in Pößneck, she wonders through
After half an hour the bus arrives in Pößneck. She gets out. She wants to go on from here. Again with the bus, but to the hospital, where the vaccination center has been since mid-January. But where is the right platform?
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She asks her way around and takes the next bus. It’s going uphill now. After a few stops, she gets out. “That big building over there, that has to be it,” she says and walks in the direction. In fact, she is right: A few meters in front of the hospital is the first sign: A large arrow to the vaccination center.
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Citizens from the Saale-Orla district criticized the choice of the vaccination center in the clinic in Pößneck. It is too difficult to access, especially for older people – and too far for seniors from the south of the Saale-Orla district. According to a spokesman for the Association of Statutory Health Insurance Physicians, the vaccination center is only temporary. “Until the vaccination can also take place in a doctor’s office.”
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75 people are vaccinated every day at the vaccination center in Pößneck
A friendly man in a yellow vest greets you at the clinic entrance. She has to fill out a form and tick that she does not have Corona. Then it goes on through a corridor, to the right, again to the right, into the elevator, upstairs, the doors open and she is there. Now take out the vaccination card and the documents, measure the temperature and go to the waiting room.
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Around 75 people are vaccinated by doctors here every day. Now the doctor calls her into the consulting room. The prick in the arm is quick. It’s just after 1 p.m. She has to wait a quarter of an hour. Just in case. “Now the vaccination is in and you don’t notice anything,” she says. She is happy that she made it. “But I have to come back for the second vaccination. I have to remember everything carefully.”
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