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“I am applying in public and requesting comments from potential volunteer doctors (enough doctors with a doctor’s license would be enough) who would agree to help the residents there,” A. Veryga announced on his Facebook account Monday.
According to the minister, a very difficult situation arose in Raseiniai.
“The coronavirus (COVID-19) also spread in the Blinstrubiškės welfare home. The most vulnerable population group lives here. When the staff also became ill, there were no staff left to properly care for the residents of these residences. The municipality cannot find doctors who agree to come help.
If you agree to help and work there temporarily, I look forward to your message or comment. Of course, you can also write directly to the mayor of Raseiniai, ”he writes.
As Rasa Šebelskienė, director of the Blinstrubiškė welfare home, later told BNS, it is not yet clear whether all these specialists will really be able to help.
“It just came to our notice then. (…) A doctor promised to send me information in the afternoon on what days and when I could work. Also, we only had to contact a nurse who works in an ambulance, so we still have We have to coordinate with his immediate supervisor to allow him to work. “… We have not yet been able to contact another doctor,” he said.
According to the head of the social care home, there is usually a doctor working in this institution, but now at least one more is needed.
“We are also missing two or three more nurses and about five or six nursing assistants,” said R. Šebelskienė.
According to data from the National Center for Public Health, the coronavirus was detected in 27 employees and 40 residents of Blinstrubiškės welfare homes. Four secondary cases were also registered.
According to R.Šebelskienė, in total this institution employs more than 100 people and nurses about 200 inhabitants.
“If we calculate the percentage, around 50 percent of the people can now work. Others cannot work, sick or in isolation. (…) The entire administration is committed. to people: feeding, cleaning, giving medicines, measuring temperatures. (…) Kitchen personnel are reduced, laundry personnel are reduced. We have still filled some of the existing resources. “She said.”
R. Veryga affirms that currently there is communication with medical institutions about possible aid, but all institutions have a year of real work and it is not easy for them. Therefore, there are no direct mechanisms to delegate or provide assistance there.
On Tuesday, Minister A. assured that he had already received three doctors offering assistance. R.Veryga expressed his hope that they would receive accommodation and remuneration; they hope the municipality will take care of that.
For his part, the mayor of the Raseiniai district, Andrius Bautronis, could not answer whether the doctors would be paid. He offered to contact the director of the Blinstrubiškės welfare home, but he has not yet responded to calls.
Facebook photo by A.Bautronis / Opening ceremony of the Lithuanian Partisan Monument in Kryžkalnis
Mere 15 minutes He said there have already been several messages from doctors willing to help.
“As far as I know, there are already some doctors who are willing to come to Blinstrubiškės to help. They are from Kaunas and Vilnius,” said the mayor.
R. Bautronis could not indicate under what conditions the doctors would arrive, if their work would be paid or voluntary.
The mayor of the Raseiniai district himself also suffers from coronavirus. On Tuesday, he said he was feeling better now, that the mayor did not need medical help.
Daiva Razmuvienė, an epidemiologist at the National Center for Public Health, said that 71 people are currently ill in the Blinstrubiškės welfare home: 27 employees, 40 residents and 4 secondary cases have been identified.
“There have been no new cases at this time,” he said.
He noted that infection control in nursing homes must be followed very strictly, but the Blinstrubiškė welfare homes apparently caught the virus.
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