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The first nurse Jolanta Litvinienė to be vaccinated in the Kaunas clinics. Vaccination of employees at Kaunas clinics and Kaunas hospital is scheduled to continue on Sunday morning. On Monday, doctors are scheduled to be vaccinated at 11 hospitals, where the vaccination will be coordinated by the Kaunas clinics.
“Our employees will agree to the vaccine and together with staff from other hospitals will carry out vaccinations of those employees,” said the general director of Kaunas clinics prof. skilled. Dr. Renaldas Jurkevičius.
He noted that doctors working on the front line will also be vaccinated in Marijampolė, Vilkaviškis, Šakiai, Jurbarkas, Raseiniai, Kėdainiai, Kaišiadorys, Jonava, Prienai.
After asking how it was decided which doctor in the Kaunas clinics would be vaccinated first on Sunday morning, the director general of the Kaunas clinics stated that the Ministry and the Government have prioritized the doctors who should be vaccinated first.
PHOTO GALLERY. In Kaunas clinics, doctors started the COVID-19 vaccine
“Doctors who work in the Covid wards must be vaccinated first and they must be vaccinated. In our case, it is the Covid room, an intensive care unit that treats the most serious patients and an emergency room for feverish patients infected with Covid disease. It was in these departments that the lists of employees who will be vaccinated on the first of these three days were compiled, ”said R. Jurkevičius.
Director of Kaunas Clinics: Decided not to vaccinate temporarily ill people
The director of the Kaunas clinics was glad that vaccines were finally being launched for doctors on the most difficult and dangerous front lines.
“It is a big party for us, we have been waiting for it for a long time. For a long time, people worked believing that we would finally reach the moment where we could begin to believe that in this war we have reached the place where the probable advance is a vaccine. , we will all be safer and safe from this disease step by step ”, said R. Jurkevičius.
“According to the recommendations, people with relapses should be vaccinated with Covid-19 disease,” responded the director general of the Kaunas clinics to the question whether the Covid-19 relievers will be vaccinated.
However, he noted that it was temporarily decided not to vaccinate relapses so that more people in society would have antibodies.
“In order to have more people with antibodies to this disease in society as soon as possible, it will probably be decided not to vaccinate those people temporarily until there are more opportunities to do so. But they will definitely have to be vaccinated, “R. Jurkevičius said at the press conference.
“There are different people, but research has shown that these vaccines are safe, the side effects are the same as with other vaccines. I can only urge everyone to get vaccinated, because only then will Lithuania be safe, not only will we protect ourselves, but also others, ”urged R. Jurkevičius.
The Kaunas Clinic already received the first vaccine against COVID-19 on Saturday. On Sunday, the first employees of the Kaunas Clinics and LSMU Kaunas Hospital, who work on the front line and are at higher risk of infection, will be vaccinated.
These are employees of covid wards, intensive care and resuscitation, emergency rooms, obstetrics and gynecology, radiology clinics working on the front line. With the first shipment of vaccines, the Kaunas Clinic received around 3,000 vaccines against COVID-19 infection.
Vaccines are stored in special freezers with a temperature of up to 80 degrees Celsius. It is very important that this vaccine maintains a cold chain, and the Kaunas clinics have the necessary conditions: specially adapted equipment and premises.
The first vaccinated nurse in Kaunas, told me how she felt
On Sunday morning, five major Lithuanian hospitals began vaccinating the first doctors against the coronavirus. The first to be vaccinated was Jolanta Litvinienė, a nurse who worked in the second COVID-19 unit, who worked there for two months. After the vaccination, she said she felt great and asked for confidence in science.
After completing the documents, J. Litvinienė went to the vaccination office. Before the vaccination, the doctors asked them if they had had a fever in recent weeks and if they might have had allergic reactions to other vaccines. And then vaccinated.
When asked how he was feeling, J. Litvinienė, who had received the vaccine, replied: “Excellent.”
“It’s just a normal vaccination procedure, the puncture is short, painless, everything is fine,” said J. Litvinienė, the first COVID-19 vaccine to be vaccinated in the Kaunas clinics.
According to her, now it will be easier to work, at least psychologically: “But we will do everything we have done so far: the same protective equipment, we will use masks, we will go to patients with overalls, because the vaccine takes time to work.”
The nurse believes that this vaccine is tantamount to a Christmas miracle for the medical community as a means of managing this massive pandemic around the world.
“We have to trust science, a great team of scientists who developed the vaccine tested it. We are in the 21st century, we really should trust science,” said J. Litvinienė.
The second vaccination for nurses is scheduled for January 17th.
Vaccine arrived in Lithuania on Saturday: experts warn too early to relax
We remind you that TV3 Žinios has already announced that the coronavirus vaccine arrived on Saturday not only in Lithuania but also in other countries of the European Union. On Saturday night, a truck with Polish registration numbers arrived at the Health Emergency Center and in its warehouses, the officers loaded boxes for Lithuania with vaccines against the coronavirus. BioNTech and Pfizer vaccines were smuggled into Lithuania, accompanied by police and Aro agents. Lithuanian officials are hiding the routes and timing of the vaccines for fear of possible attacks on the cargo.
“There was talk of risks in other countries, indications that Lithuania has not received specifics, but having that knowledge, Lithuania has decided to take out insurance,” said Jurgita Grebenkovienė, Chancellor of Health, at the press conference.
Boxes filled with dry ice contain even smaller boxes of vaccine doses. Officials rushed them to the freezers, as they must be kept in a cold 80 degrees. Almost 10,000 doses of vaccines (9,750) arrived in Lithuania on Saturday.
Latvia and Estonia, which have the same population, report the same number on Saturday, although the European Commission has announced that vaccines must be supplied to countries in proportion to their population. Health Ministry officials expect to receive more vaccines in the coming weeks, with a second shipment expected on Wednesday.
“The vaccine has finally arrived in Lithuania. A new phase of hope begins when we respond and do not flee and fight the virus. The vaccine will be under control and little by little we will return to normal life,” said Health Minister Arūnas. Dulkys, at the press conference.
The vaccines were already accepted by staff at the Santara clinics on Saturday morning and preparations began for the medical vaccination, which will begin on Sunday. By vaccinating doctors first, officials hope that the risk of infection will be reduced, that hospital work will be easier and that more doctors will be able to work rather than in isolation.
“We plan to vaccinate doctors in the first trimester, then in nursing, care personnel and residents, then in chronic diseases, over 65 years and finally in mass vaccination of society,” said J. Grebenkovienė.
Doctors at Klaipeda University Hospital, who also received coronavirus vaccines on Saturday, are also anxious about the start of vaccination. It is true that a tenth of the doctors here refuse to be vaccinated, and those who have acquired immunity and have already contracted the coronavirus will not be vaccinated.
The vaccines are now available at the Kaunas clinics. Doctors in this city received as many vaccinations as Vilnius residents, almost 3,000 doses. The other three large cities received fewer first vaccines per regional population. The third shipment of vaccine should arrive in Lithuania in early January. In the first stage, the ministry plans to consume the 10,000. doses and vaccinated personnel in twenty-eight hospitals.
To develop full immunity, they will need to be re-vaccinated after 3 weeks and use vaccines from subsequent batches. When doctors working in healthcare institutions are vaccinated in Lithuania, in the second stage, vaccines will be administered to employees and patients of nursing and supportive care institutions.
Although the long-awaited vaccination against the coronavirus in Lithuania will begin soon, experts warn that this will not allow us to relax and return to a pre-pandemic lifestyle. According to experts, you will continue to have to wear masks for a long time, avoid meetings and stay away from people.
“It would be a big mistake if people thought that they have been vaccinated, that they could no longer be safe. The distance, the masks, the hand hygiene, will remain for a long time. Ideally, urgently, when vaccines will be available on a regular basis Collective when it is formed, “said Saulius Čaplinskas, director of the Center for Infectious Diseases and AIDS.
The virus continues to spread uncontrollably in Lithuania. In the last day, 2,350 new cases of coronavirus were identified in the country and almost 4,900 studies were carried out, that is, one out of every two studies is positive. Another 23 people died yesterday from coronavirus, including 1 in thirty-two and two in forty. And while the government demands strict carnatine, many compatriots are spitting on the demands. Here, for example, followers of Ksekšnosa visit people in villages, visit common tables without masks, and insist on the requirement not to meet or wear masks, explaining that God is protecting them.
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