Critics are outraged by the vaccines received by V. Kasiulevičius and V. Morozov, A. Dulkys says that the first vaccines should have been administered directly to those working with COVID-19.

Critics say such a vaccine distribution is wrong because GPs have not yet had to be vaccinated as a matter of priority.

In accordance with the recommendations of the Council of Experts formed by the Government, the hospitals were vaccinated mainly by personnel working in the COVID-19 units, emergency and reception units, resuscitation and intensive care units, heart attack, stroke and multiple trauma clusters, transplants , day hospitals for oncology-hematology, emergency rooms, in endoscopy, anesthesiology, hemodialysis, obstetrics and gynecology.

V.Kasiulevičius, Vice Dean of the Vilnius University Medical Faculty, also works on the expert council formed by the Prime Minister.

The response from the BNS clinic in Santara indicates that the vaccination was carried out according to the recommendations, but sometimes the staff did not attend the vaccination for various reasons, so others were invited to their place.

“The vaccination organization is required by law to plan vaccination flows and to do everything possible to use all available doses of the vaccine. Therefore, people on the reserve list who must arrive within 20 minutes are urgently invited. Those people are from different departments, “said one of the five support hospitals in the country.

According to them, a total of almost 1,9 thousand people were vaccinated in the Santara clinics. workers begin to vaccinate on Sunday. Vaccination began in other hospitals in the Vilnius region on Tuesday.

390 doses of vaccine were sent to Vilnius City Clinical Hospital, 80 doses to M. Marcinkevičius, 250 to Vilnius Republic University, 200 to Alytus Hospital, and 110 km to Ukmergė Hospital.

Clinicas Santara also noted that they thank not only the doctors who were called urgently and were able to attend, but also those who “contribute to the formation of public opinion and, with their example, encourage both colleagues and the general public to actively vaccinate. “

V. Kasiulevičius, who received the COVID-19 vaccine, told the BNS that he did not believe that he or other family doctors would have been exempted from getting vaccinated early.

“The vaccinated doctors also do not work with COVID-19, but they do work with patients who have fever and other problems and may be infected with covid, I was vaccinated with other specialists who also work in the outpatient clinic, they consult patients live ( …) if you have been vaccinated by a cardiologist or allergist, you can also be vaccinated by a family doctor, since our hospital is the one that works with covidu and here is the highest concentration devoured“He said.”

“Everyone will be vaccinated in the next two weeks,” added the doctor.

V. Kasiulevičius stated that he had not requested the vaccine and said that he had only responded to the invitation of the Clinics.

Morozov then deleted the vaccination record on the social network and BNS could not contact him.

Toma Kundrotė, president of the Lithuanian Family Physicians Union, criticized the hospital’s decision to vaccinate family physicians who are not directly exposed to COVID-19 patients and claimed that doctors or nurses who are exposed to the virus on a daily basis have not yet received the vaccine.

“Family doctors who work at a mobile point or in fever clinics are still waiting for vaccination. This should be the priority, if some do not work directly with COVID-19 patients, but are vaccinated, and others work directly with COVID patients. -19 and they are waiting for a successful vaccination, ”T. Kundrotė told BNS.

According to her, most family doctors fall into the medium-risk group, which should be vaccinated when doctors who work directly with COVID-19, as well as high-risk patients, have already been vaccinated.

“There is a really big stone here in the garden of the support hospitals, they had to take care of their staff, but they didn’t take care of it. Belekaip, quickly, it is important to be vaccinated, and what is vaccinated is no longer very relevant. The people who were entitled to it and who are entitled to it are much higher in terms of priority, ”said the doctor.

A.Dulkys: Hospitals had to vaccinate doctors who worked directly with COVID-19

Health Minister Arūnas Dulkys says that after receiving the first batch of coronavirus vaccine, hospitals first had to vaccinate doctors working with COVID-19.

“We, the Ministry and the Government, certainly did not interfere in the lists of specific workers, we simply gave a very clear priority to the experts that the first batch should be exclusively for doctors or workers directly involved in the treatment and operation of COVID- 19 in hot spots, A. Dulkys told reporters Wednesday.

Lithuania has so far received two shipments of vaccines manufactured by BioNTech and Pfizer, a total of 20 thousand. 475 doses. On Sunday, medical vaccines were launched at five major treatment centers around the country.