Up to 1800 vaccinations per day

• ofAnnette Schlegl

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Offenbach district The vaccination center in Heusenstamm is up and running. Older people are initially vaccinated.

The Covid-19 vaccination center for citizens: inside the Offenbach district is. In the past few days, a large, white hall was built in the parking lot of the Heusenstamm campus (Jahnstraße 64), in which 1,800 people can be vaccinated every day. The syringe in the upper arm with a 1.3 milliliter vaccine dose from Biontech / Pfizer is only given to those who are contacted by the State of Hesse. It has taken over central control. Anyone who stands at the door, so to speak, will be turned away, explained Dr. Thomas Liedtke, head of the vaccination centers at Ecolog Deutschland GmbH. His company was entrusted by the Offenbach district with the construction, operation and dismantling of the vaccination center.

Vaccinations are carried out every day in the hall from 7 a.m. to 10 p.m. – despite curfew from 9 p.m. An exception certificate makes this possible, said Ralf Ackermann, head of the district’s health center, at an on-site appointment on Tuesday.

The vaccination center will be in operation for at least 250 days. The Minister of Health will determine when it will open the doors. “There are current reports that it might start before Christmas,” said District Administrator Oliver Quilling (CDU). The vaccination is voluntary. First, elderly people would be written to by the country.

The first vaccinations are carried out by mobile vaccination teams that vaccinate residents and staff in the old people’s and nursing homes in the Offenbach district. “At the same time, the vaccination center in Heusenstamm will probably be started up,” said the district administrator. But the country still has to deliver the IT equipment. Before the patient enters the hall, he or she has a fever measured in the entrance lock so that an acute infection can be ruled out. He shows his invitation and vaccination certificate at one of the nine registration boxes, and the insurance card is scanned. Then it goes to the waiting area and then to the information area, where a video about vaccination information is shown. If you still have questions, you can ask them in one of the four doctor’s offices. Finally, a traffic light system indicates whether one of the 22 vaccination booths is free. After the vaccination, you go to a waiting area again. The patients have to stay there for a quarter of an hour to make sure that there are no complications. You will also receive your second vaccination appointment there, which is scheduled 21 to 28 days later. “With just one dose you can’t get vaccination protection,” said Liedtke.

“We want as little paper as possible here,” he said. That is why those willing to vaccinate should come to the campus with a barcode, which is scanned in the center.

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