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When the Šilalė district received only 1,500 vaccinations, it turned out that the director of a company providing private health care services from Vilnius and his relatives had also been vaccinated with them. District authorities are outraged by such a blunder and company officials say the manager deserves the family vaccination.
With the vaccines that arrived in Lithuania only two weeks ago, it was decided first to vaccinate the doctors. However, it is increasingly common for stories to be made public when the vaccine is not given to those to whom it should belong in order of priority. The head of a private medical company with a Vilnius family was vaccinated in Šilalė.
“Yesterday we had to receive many calls from the population, with resentment or reproach, because our district is quite small, the speeches are spreading fast, since it happened that 5 executives of the Vilnius Ambulansas and possibly families were vaccinated with employees of UAB Ambulansas . members “, – Tadas Bartkus, deputy mayor of Šilalė, wrote on the social network.
When the mayor asked who was vaccinated at the Šilalė Ambulansas ambulance company, a repeated surname was noted. The list includes not only the manager of the company, Ričardas Ūselis, but also Marija Ūselienė, Vytautas Ūselis and Simona Gilytė-Ūselienė.
“I cannot explain anything, we are patient and the patient protection law is probably in force in Lithuania,” Ambulance chief Šilalė said.
Loreta Kalnikaitė, who does not want to explain anything and tries to cover up the law, is not only the head of the Šilalė section of the ambulance, but also a member of the Šilalė district council. It belongs to the Conservative Party.
“I do not know anything about last names, I am glad that there are vaccinated employees. The list is not compiled in 5 minutes. We have compiled and changed the list for about 3 weeks and some leave, others may not be working for 5 minutes,” said Loreta Kalnikaitė, Head of Ambulance of Šilalė.
The director of the company himself did not answer the phone, but the director of the company responsible for quality said more. And himself on the list of people to be vaccinated.
“Do you think that those Ambulance people are not in the risk zone? Communication with employees of Covid-19, a service organization. And as for the relatives, yes, there were several relatives who have been volunteers in our institution since March” , explained Algirdas Radvila, quality director of the company.
“I think perhaps here is the thought that a small area will not notice anything, the desire to get vaccinated as soon as possible, we arrive, we get vaccinated, we leave and we will go unnoticed,” said the deputy mayor.
A company spokesperson says only members of the manager’s family volunteered at the facility because finding other volunteers is difficult.
And although movement between the country’s municipalities was prohibited, it was not an obstacle both for the management of the company and for the family members.
“Letters were written that the office personnel were going, for what purpose they were going, with all the stamps, the traffic police asked them how to do it to show that this unit was ours, we had to get a license, everything was done and just We travel. And we will also travel for the second vaccine, ”said A. Radvila.
The vaccines were distributed by the Šilalė District Hospital. He contacted ambulance services to provide a list of doctors who come into contact with patients and need protection against the virus. In total, about 100 vaccines were administered to the Šilalė district. And the district hospital alone employs about 180 people.
“The care facilities, where grandparents are clearly reduced after this pandemic, due to deaths, but there are about 70 grandparents who can be vaccinated, the service personnel, and there are also neighbors in the area who are at risk that we can get vaccinated ”. T. Bartkus spoke about the situation.
On Friday it was announced that eight professors from Vilnius University had also received coronavirus vaccines, allegedly intending to start working at the Žalgiris clinic in the capital from February, but have not yet signed a contract with it. Among them is the daughter of Juozas Olekas with her husband.
SAM: Violations are being investigated
The Ministry of Health (SAM) has already started investigations on vaccines against violations of the COVID-19 procedure at the Žalgiris Clinic of the Vilnius University Hospital and at the Šilalė Ambulance Station.
Aistė Šuksta, representative of the Minister of Health Arūnas Dulkis, informed BNS about this.
“Steps have already been taken, instructing specialists to investigate all circumstances,” Šuksta told BNS on Saturday.
“Yes, it is very bad (…) but first you have to look at all the circumstances and then take all the legal actions that depend on the process,” he said.
According to the representative of the Minister, if the institution where the violation is established is subordinate to the SAM, then the investigation will be carried out by the Ministry itself, and if it is not among the founders, the investigation may be delegated to another institution.
“If the institution is at the disposal of the municipality, then the Minister can compel the municipality to investigate all the circumstances and take the necessary legal action if the facts are clear that the order or the law has been violated,” said A. Šuksta.
According to her, the ministry is currently preparing for mass vaccination of the population and is talking to the association of private clinics about the use of these facilities, but the amount of abuse is likely to increase as the number of facilities increases.
“Clearly, we hope that people are aware and that the possibility of vaccination alone is not abused, but if such cases do occur, and we now see that they are likely to occur, they will certainly not be overlooked and investigated on a case by case. The circumstances will be clarified and then the procedure established by law will be followed “, emphasized the representative of the Minister.
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