A medical assistance mission returned to Lithuania to help combat COVID-19 in Armenia

Marius Čiurlionis, the head of the medical team representing the Ministry of Health (SAM), stated that the successful medical assistance mission had ended. No new Lithuanian medical missions have been planned yet.

“We are all healthy, we still have no signs, the flight was long with a stop in Bulgaria, no one on the team complains of specific coronavirus symptoms,” he said in a brief press conference at Siauliai airport.

M.Čiurlionis called the medical assistance mission a challenge, because it is the first case in Lithuania when doctors came to provide assistance to another country.

“For the first time in our lives, we began to provide aid from a country that used to receive aid. It is a great step forward,” he said.

According to M.Čiurlionis, new Lithuanian medical missions are not yet planned.

Participants in the humanitarian mission now face 14 days of isolation.

Health Minister Aurelius Veryga, Head of State Emergency Operations at the state level, thanked the mission participants, who have completed their work in Armenia: “We hope that this successful humanitarian mission opens up opportunities for new partnerships and projects in the future, “said the minister.

The Armenian colleagues were assisted for two weeks by anesthesiologist-resuscitator Ainius Žarskus, resident anesthesiologists-resuscitators Lukas Neimanas and Romanas Botovas, nurses – Diana Rinkevičiūtė, Vilnius Savezienė, Virginija Savickienė, Laura Gurskienė, Jolita Šk hospitals.