As of now, ten active soldiers are providing support as so-called "helping hands" the county of coburg in the fight against the corona virus. Five of them are soldiers of the artillery battalion in weiden (upper palatinate), five are from the sanitary command in rennerod (rhineland-palatinate).You will support in the next four weeks in the medical-park in bad rodach.
Patients who have been hospitalized for covid-19 disease can also be treated at the rehabilitation clinic if their condition improves. The soldiers who have arrived in bad rodach are helping out.
Bernd edelmann, reserve lieutenant colonel and head of the coburg-land district liaison command, and manfred lorenz from the disaster control management group of the district office, as well as the team from the medical park, introduced the soldiers to their tasks and handed them the appropriate work clothing. While soldiers of the sanitary commando from rennerod support the nursing service, the people from weiden help more organizationally.
District administrator sebastian straubel welcomed the helpers and thanked them for their commitment in the fight against the coronavirus: "we can use every helping hand in the process." red