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The letter states that “the spread of the disease in the institution is controlled, the instructions of the Vilnius Department of the NVSC are not followed.”
The pensioner’s representatives claim that the information from the NVSC is not accurate, that all safety instructions are followed at the institution and that infections in case of close contact are unavoidable.
Instruct to train staff, to abandon group activities
The department requires, among other things, a ban on patients visiting the pension, a ban on providing services to staff who are sick or in compulsory isolation, not admitting residents to short-term social care for 14 days and suspending group activities.
Residents are instructed to provide food in the rooms, from incoming patients and self-service by leaving them at the door, and to provide detailed information to patients and loved ones.
Issue at least eight medical masks per day to each patient who can leave the room and explain how to use and change them.
The institution should also immediately train remote personnel on the use of personal protective equipment and ensure that personnel have the appropriate equipment.
The institution must also change the organization of service provision: divide the rooms into groups, assign each group only one team of staff to supervise it, these teams do not have to meet. Immediately provide the NVSC Vilnius Department with information on the trained staff teams and which patients they supervise.
Antaviliai’s pension will also have to ensure that staff meetings do not take place and that staff do not come into unnecessary contact with each other.
The institution and the municipality must inform the NVSC about compliance with these instructions no later than Monday.
There were doubts about the execution of the instructions.
The NVSC letter states that on April 17, the institution was instructed to conduct an immediate investigation by institution staff on COVID-19, but this investigation took time and all of the institution’s employees did not complete the investigation until 6 of May. However, the representatives of the institution affirm that this information is not accurate.
After the epidemiological diagnosis began at the institution from April 26 to 27, it was established that the staff shifts were not properly trained, personal protective equipment was not used or used, and their accounting was not performed.
According to the NVSC, the administration of the institution already received instructions at that time to train employees to use personal protective equipment and ensure its proper use, and to issue masks to patients.
At that time, he was ordered to investigate 90 patients who had been in contact with the infected and to form stable staff shifts. The coronavirus was then confirmed in ten patients, who were withdrawn from the institution.
According to the letter, which explained the circumstances of the infection, the NVSC had doubts about the execution of the instructions, so the administration of the institution was asked to provide detailed information about the preventive tests of the personnel during the quarantine, including the name of the staff, the investigation and other details. , organize teamwork, separate patients according to risk.
The department contacted the institution again on May 4, ordering reexaminations of the pension staff and residents who had been in contact with the infected, and ensuring that the staff of the pension were examined every seven days and that this examination was carried out. will take place on Friday. In this study, coronaviruses were identified in four more individuals.
Pensioner’s representative: all rooms must be examined
Birutė Šarakauskienė, Deputy Director of Antaviliai Pension, affirms that the infection is inevitable in case of personal contact and stated that it is necessary to immediately examine the entire population of the institution.
Julius Kalinskas / 15min photo / “Antavilių pensionatas” during quarantine
He noted that the most recently infected staff had been isolated at this center with patients, had been living in the ward since April 28, and had been working with special care.
“They were wearing special clothes, they even sent photos of how they looked there in overalls, full of clothes,” said one of the institution’s managers.
According to B. Šarakauskienė, the employees became infected because they had to be in close contact with the infected patients.
“It just came to our attention then. We all say we need to keep a distance of at least two meters from each other, and there is no such distance here: they both fed and listened to medications, washed and changed diapers, planted them in bed, put them to bed.” , said.
According to the representative of the institution, the information that the employees were not inspected for a long time is not correct, at present, according to their data, all the employees of the pension are inspected at least twice.
“The third time I checked yesterday, everyone checked twice, sometimes, and the third time,” he emphasized.
According to B. Šarakausienė, to stop the spread of the virus in the institution, it is necessary to examine all its inhabitants. According to his data, there are 211 of them untested.
“I want to verify and then ‘catch’ all those contacts and somehow survive. The workers infected with the population have already started. We no longer know who could be infected with what. It is a terrible situation,” he said.
According to data published by the Ministry of Social Security and Labor, the Antaviliai pension has 276 places, its founder is a private person.
According to the NVSC on Friday, there were 22 cases of COVID-19 at the facility, 217 exposed individuals were identified (191 residents and 26 employees).
Four other cases of coronavirus were detected Saturday at the facility and the workers became infected.
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