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George Sakellion is one of thousands of Greeks trained abroad. He was one of the first to get vaccinated in the UK, where he lives and works on the front line. He has been at Colchester Hospital, Essex, for six years. There he offers his services as an anesthesiologist. His main responsibility is the treatment of patients with Covid-19 infection.
“Anesthesiologists are the ones who operate the units. Anesthesiologists are the ones who intubate, they are the ones who keep people in intensive care and the machines,” explains George Sakellion, 52, at APE-MPE.
His position obliges him to take all protective measures. With the latest and most effective, as scientists say, vaccination.
“The side effects of the vaccine, whatever they are, are fun from being intubated and spending five days in the unit. So the relative risk of the vaccine is much lower than that of getting sick.” For those who can understand … For those who start conspiracy theories about chips and mutations, I have nothing to say there … “, Mr. Sakellion emphasizes.
What the Greek anesthesiologist will not forget is what urged him to get vaccinated without thinking twice: the first coronavirus patient to tire. Early February 2020. “A 50-year-old man, with no particular problems. He arrived with difficulty breathing, he was intubated at five or six hours because he could not bear his breathing and ended at twelve or fourteen hours, without being able to do anything “, he describes.
“He was our only patient at that time, he was the first patient.” We did everything we could and we saw him go to die without being able to do anything, “he added, disappointed by the incident that marked him.
These feelings only make the vaccination process bureaucratic, which is very well organized, says the Greek doctor in Colchester. “All this is done with an email that they send personally to everyone. You respond based on the workplace and your hierarchy.” Health workers ranked third in the vaccination series. He was preceded by patients older than 80 years. This was followed by citizens who are over seventy years old and have health problems. On the Essex Hospital staff, front-line doctors and nurses began vaccinations. G. Sakellion made the first delivery on Monday, December 14. The second installment is scheduled for January 5. Then it will be considered immune. “After the information is given on the spot, they give you the vaccine. You stay for ten to fifteen minutes, maybe there will be an acute allergic reaction and you go away.” The only discomfort I felt, even in the flu shot sometimes, it is a slight pain on palpation in the shoulder where the injection was applied and a weight the next day in the same hand, “describes the doctor who is among the first two hundred thousand people who have already been vaccinated in the Kingdom United.
But even then, hygiene and personal protection measures must be fully observed. The vaccine protects, but does not prevent someone from being an asymptomatic carrier and transmitting the virus. The vaccine receipt is a card that contains the batch number, the type of vaccine, and the company that produced it. Whether it will be used as a passport for air travel has not yet been decided. However, it is rumored that some countries and travel companies will encourage travel by people vaccinated against the Covid-19 pandemic.
The vaccination program in the UK is estimated to last four to five months to vaccinate 50% -60% of the population. “To calm down from evil”, concludes the Greek doctor from Colchester who will celebrate this year away from his family.
Source: ΑΠΕ-ΜΠΕ
