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According to Aušra Bilotienė Motiejūnienė, Director of the Santara Clinics at Vilnius University Hospital, the situation in the region with 960 thousand. The population, as in all of Lithuania, is tense: the number of patients admitted to hospitals continues to grow and medical personnel are also ill.
“We are grateful to our staff who understand the situation and agree to help colleagues from other departments. Still, we feel lack of hands in the hospital. There are many activities that do not require medical education, but without it the harmonious functioning of the entire hospital would be disrupted, ”says A. Bilotienė in a press release.
Clinicas Santara informs that volunteers who could contribute to the courier activities are welcome: take or accompany patients from one room to another, take test samples and deliver them to the laboratory, accompany the tests, procedures, deliver packages. Assistance is also needed in the rooms for patients with COVID-19.
The clinic’s volunteer campaign is carried out with the Lithuanian Red Cross: volunteers without medical education are asked to apply, and those with medical education are asked to apply to the clinics themselves.
According to Jurga Šuminienė, deputy director of nursing at the Santara Clinics, there are high hopes that these volunteers will be able to provide assistance for a longer period of time, dedicating at least 20 hours a week to it.
The managing director emphasizes that former colleagues and others with medical education are also welcome at the Santara clinics.
“We are forming the so-called ’employee bank’, whose forces we would use if necessary,” he said.
Lithuania is currently one of the countries most affected by the coronavirus in Europe and the world, and coronavirus outbreaks are also registered in some hospitals, isolating doctors and starting to run out of staff.
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