Sunday, June 6th, 2021
BMG rejects allegations
Walter-Borjans calls for Spahn to be released
The coalition partner is putting pressure on CDU Health Minister Jens Spahn in the latest mask case. After Secretary General Klingbeil, the SPD leader Norbert Walter-Borjans has now also spoken out. The Federal Ministry of Health rejects the allegations.
The SPD chairman Norbert Walter-Borjans believes that Health Minister Jens Spahn’s handling of allegedly inferior corona masks is inhuman and calls for consequences. “(CDU boss) Armin Laschet now has to ask himself whether this scandalous approach by Jens Spahn is still acceptable for a party with a Christian label,” said Walter-Borjans of “Bild am Sonntag”. “The public has the right to a quick answer.”
After a “Spiegel” report on the handling of allegedly inferior corona masks, Spahn is under criticism. According to plans by the Ministry of Health, masks that have not been tested to high standards should go to people with disabilities or the homeless. The Federal Ministry of Health (BMG) rejected the statement that the risk to people had been accepted – including members of particularly vulnerable groups. “This is an unacceptable accusation that is not covered by any facts,” tweeted the BMG.
Walter-Borjans told the newspaper: “It is unworthy and inhuman when a health minister divides people into two classes, namely those who are entitled to quality-tested masks and those for whom absolutely unsuitable masks are good enough not to protect their lives. ” “If that occurred to a minister of the SPD, we would know what to do.”
Green parliamentary group leader Katrin Göring-Eckardt was “shocked” and expected “an immediate explanation from the minister himself”. Göring-Eckardt told “Bild am Sonntag”: “The federal government must leave no doubt that the life and health of every person counts equally and is not put at risk to sweep one’s own mistakes under the carpet.”
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