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A letter from a woman living in the Vilnius district reached the tv3.lt news portal. Erika, who introduced herself, says she does not understand why, while working in Vilnius, she cannot take her iodine tablets at the city pharmacy.
“It is known from the knowledge that people do not take iodine tablets, a full pharmacy, but nobody takes them, maybe the government will ask why this is the case?
Oh, because it is quite difficult for ordinary people to collect them. The situation of our family is as follows: we live on the outskirts of Vilnius, but the Vilnius district is already reading this. When I was at the peak of taking the pills, I thought about spending time after work and visiting the pharmacy on the way to me, but when I arrived I left with the desire to pick them up in my municipality ”, the reader. who wrote to the portal writes.
According to the woman, a pharmacy that distributes pills near her home is open from 8 pm in the morning until 5 pm on weekdays at night. It is at this time that Erika is already in Vilnius, working. Although iodine tablets can be collected from the Vilnius district elders, it is also possible to do so only during work.
“I want to know how to pick them up when I’m working. The same situation happened to my mother and sister. {…} If it’s already so vital, why can’t we pick up those pills at a local place convenient for residents, and not only in our neighborhood? As a result, our family still does not have those pills because we are working and so far we have not had the opportunity to recover them. Here in Lithuania, here it rains, it rains … “, says tv3.lt in its letter .
Vilnius city municipality: tablets – only for those registered in the city
Dovilė Ibianskaitė, a representative of the Vilnius city municipality, says on tv3.lt that she cannot comment much on anything. There are such rules, and the municipalities themselves have decided how best to distribute the pills to their residents.
“The Vilnius City Municipality distributes pills only to those people who have declared their place of residence in the city. District Municipality – declared in the district. The Vilnius district decided to distribute the pills through the elderly, while the city municipality – through pharmacies.
Since your reader lives in the district, you should contact the district municipality about the potassium iodide tablets that you have, ”the municipality said in a comment.
According to the Vilnius District Municipality, elderly residents permanently living within the extended planning distance (within a radius of 100 km) can collect iodine preparations at the nursing home depending on the place of residence.
In some elders, the preparations were allegedly distributed with the help of elders, senior employees, who brought the pills to residents’ homes or distributed them according to the schedule established in the respective settlements.
The recall of the free-to-use potassium iodide tablets has been extended until January 31. According to data from the Vilnius City Municipality, about 62 percent of them have recovered their own pills. Vilnius residents.
Unregistered residents of Vilnius or its district can also buy iodine tablets, but only for a fee. This can be done in some pharmacies without a prescription.
There are four potassium iodide tablets available by prescription. According to the Ministry of Health (SAM), two tablets of potassium iodide of 65 grams is a daily dose for a person older than 12 years.
In the event of a nuclear accident, adults may be advised to take an additional daily dose of 4 tablets in one day.
For information on how to take potassium iodide tablets correctly, see the report:
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