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“The hospital is currently investigating. So far, we cannot say the final results. This was due to a dilution error during the procedure, which was caused by a human factor. That day, the five people who were to be vaccinated were left without vaccinate “. 15 minutes commented LL Siupienytė, Head of the Infection Control Department at Marijampolė Hospital.
Photo of the Kaunas clinics / Vaccination of patients and employees in the Kaunas clinics
According to a representative of the Marijampolė Hospital, doctors who ran out of vaccines should be vaccinated this Tuesday.
According to L.Šiupienytė, the need for an additional vaccine vial will not hamper the planned vaccination: the second doses of vaccines will reach everyone on time.
“It is not an exhaustive list that, behold, we have ordered a few hundred doses and we are not going to receive more, and someone will get hurt. The list is constantly updated, ”L.Šiupienytė said about the procedure at the hospital.
“Every week there are several more people who want to get vaccinated and we can already get vaccinated. For example, people with relapse can only get vaccinated three months after illness. So we have no knowledge of who would be without the vaccine at this time, “said the representative of the Marijampolė Hospital.
Errors happen infrequently
Vaccination in Lithuania is organized by five main hospitals: Vilnius University Hospital, Santara Clinic, Lithuanian University of Health Sciences Hospital, Kaunas Clinic, Klaipėda University Hospital, Šiauliai Republican Hospital, Panevėžys Republican Hospital.
Photo from Klaipeda University Hospital / Revaccination at Klaipeda University Hospital
Some of them lost the experience of losing the vaccine vials.
So far, no doses of the vaccine have been missed in the Kaunas clinics when vaccinating employees and patients.
Similarly, no doses were missed at the Vilnius Santara Clinics and the Klaipėda University Hospital.
During the entire vaccination period until today, one case of missed dose of vaccine was recorded in the Republican Hospital of Panevėžys.
Tomas Markelevičius / 15min photo / Vaccines brought to Panevėžys
According to the communication specialist at Vytautas Riaubiškis hospital, this happened due to human error.
No further investigation was initiated to establish the circumstances.
Despite the occurrence of losses, the Ministry of Health (SAM) does not collect information on them.
“We do not keep track of how many vials or vaccines of the COVID-19 doses have been damaged. We only collect relevant information on vaccinated people ”, it is written 15 minutes in the response sent by the Ministry.
We only collect relevant information about vaccinated people.
Doesn’t always produce six doses
Communication Specialist of the Republican Hospital Šiauliai Zita Katkienė 15 minutes He confirmed that since the beginning of the vaccination, the hospital doctors have lost the vaccines due to broken vials or poorly diluted preparations, but the loss is indispensable.
“Formally there are five doses in the vials, but in reality there are six. Now that the sixth dose has been allowed, there are cases in which it is not taken correctly and it is no longer used, ”says the communication specialist on missed vaccines.
Scanpix Photo / Pfizer / BioNTech coronavirus vaccine
On January 8, the State Medicines Control Agency (IARC) announced that the Committee for Medicinal Products for Human Use (EMA) of the European Medicines Agency had recommended that the Comirnaty vaccine (name of the vaccine BioNtech and Pfizer) be updated. . the vial contains 6 doses of vaccine.
IWT advises healthcare professionals: the sixth dose must be drawn from the vial with special syringes; With standard vaccines, it may not be enough to remove the sixth dose from the vial.
It is also emphasized that if the amount of vaccine remaining in the vial after the fifth dose is withdrawn cannot deliver the full dose (0.3 ml), the healthcare professional should discard the vial and its contents.
The vaccine should not be drawn from multiple vials to reach the full dose, and any unused vaccine should be discarded 6 hours after dilution.
The vaccine should not be drawn from multiple vials to reach the full dose, and any unused vaccine should be discarded 6 hours after dilution.
The mistake could have cost more
According to data received by SAM, on January 12, the cold chain may have been damaged during transport, when the vaccine from two pharmaceutical companies BioNTech and Pfizer was delivered to the coordinating centers: the Kaunas Clinic of the University of Science of the Lithuanian Health and the Republican Panevėžys Hospital.
The vaccine was not properly transported by the family business Sotus Harvest, which had only two employees and had previously produced vegetable meatballs.
Tomas Markelevičius / 15min photo / The first vaccines were delivered to Panevėžys
Despite the damaged cold chain, SAM received official confirmation from the Pfizer office in Lithuania that the vaccines were suitable for use.
“Based on the stability study data provided by the manufacturer, it has been determined that the temperature deviation from the aforementioned transport conditions is permissible. The above products are suitable for later use, ”explained the representative of the vaccine manufacturer.
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