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First, five doctors from the Infectious Diseases Unit currently in the hospital and two Resuscitation and Intensive Care Units were vaccinated. The first five doctors on the list and vaccinated first. All of them are employees of the Infection Departments: doctors Aidas Kaušas and Judita Minickaitė-Katinienė and nurses S. Jatulevičienė, Zita Rimkuvienė and Kornelija Urlakytė. All of them were vaccinated by Irena Gailienė, a general practice nurse in the Department of Pediatric Resuscitation and Intensive Care.
The first five doctors to be vaccinated attended a press conference and shared not only their post-vaccination impressions, but also their experience working with COVID-19 patients. Remigijus Mažeika, director of the Šiauliai Republican Hospital, told reporters that the COVID-19 vaccine is the best Christmas present for the hospital’s doctors.
A. Kaušas, infectious disease specialist, head of the Department of Infectious Diseases of the Republican Hospital Šiauliai, together with the first to be vaccinated against the coronavirus, assured journalists that the vaccination procedure was painless and that all doctors were waiting for this vaccine.
When the journalists asked him how to proceed after a vaccine, the doctor assured that there were no special recommendations, so he advised to act as after the flu or another vaccine.
The infectologist J. Minickaitė, who treated the first case of COVID-19 in Šiauliai and throughout the country, recalled the beginning of the pandemic, when there were more fears not only that doctors would get sick, but also of bringing the virus to House. Later, loved ones were also afraid of getting infected and getting sick.
1000 doses of the vaccine were delivered to the hospital. 110 doctors were vaccinated the first day. On Monday, the vaccination of doctors will take place at the Women’s and Children’s Clinic, where a second vaccination post will be established, and on December 30, doctors from the support hospitals of Mažeikiai, Telšiai and Radviliškis.
The Šiauliai Republican Hospital employs more than 1,200 doctors, some 400 have already had COVID-19. Lists of people who want to be vaccinated not only by doctors but also by other professions are already being compiled. All doctors working in medical institutions are expected to be vaccinated in the first quarter of the year.
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