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According to Šarūnas Mačinskas, head of the hospital’s Outpatient Services Coordination Service, the institution could start vaccination tomorrow, but it will all depend on when the vaccines arrive in the country.
“Currently, the institution is planning and ready to vaccinate employees as soon as possible, depending on the amount of vaccines received. We don’t know their very exact figures, but the preliminary figure is just under 10,000. the doses arrive in Lithuania with the first batch, ”he said.
The hospital representative noted that only after talking about the vaccine and Lithuania started to conclude contracts for the purchase of Covid-19 vaccines did Kaunas Clinics start thinking about how this process should be implemented.
According to him, the process is even more active now that the vaccines must reach the body immediately. The Kaunas clinics are responsible for the treatment of Covid-19 patients in the region, so the responsibility for organizing vaccinations falls on their shoulders:
“The 5 organizing bodies will be responsible not only for vaccinating their own staff, but also for vaccinating all staff in the region. The exact time we will do this, we don’t know yet, depends on when the vaccines will be delivered. But we are ready to vaccinate both our staff and other institutions in the region. (…) We have all the necessary conditions for the storage and administration of vaccines “.
Vaccination promises 70 percent. institution employees
Š. Mačinskas said that the Kaunas clinics had recently interviewed all of their employees and it turned out that he entered more than 7,000. just over 70 percent. He immediately expressed his desire to be vaccinated with Covid-19.
“It’s really a sufficient number of employees,” he said.
He asked why the remaining 30 percent. If they did not agree to do so, one doctor said it was a really good percentage, as only 10-15% had had a flu shot before. workers.
Š. Mačinskas noted that the Kaunas clinics will first vaccinate all health professionals working in the Covid-19 ward.
Vaccination will continue to be carried out as a priority for those who work in the emergency services, henceforth, who emit large amounts of aerosols during their work.
“We plan to start that work in the morning and on the first day the specialists who work in the higher risk departments will be vaccinated, who work not only in the Kaunas clinics, but also in the Kaunas Hospital. The first vaccines are planned to be used in such a way that in proportion to the number of employees who work in the priority units, they will be vaccinated in all the hospitals in the region, ”said the head of the Outpatient Services Coordination Service.
Is the vaccine an overdose?
When asked if workers who had already had Covid-19 but had low antibody levels would be vaccinated, Š. Mačinskas said that all international guidelines state that even people who are sick cannot be vaccinated if they are sick.
“When they are healthy, it is recommended that they get vaccinated because they develop a stronger and longer-lasting immunity to this vaccine. Therefore, I believe that it will be written in the established procedures that those who do not have any immunity will be vaccinated in the first stage. (…) However, they will be vaccinated after they are sick, only later, ”he said.
Vaccines are welcomed by 2-thirds of the country’s population
As the presidency announced on Tuesday, two-thirds of Lithuanians over the age of 18 plan to get vaccinated against Covid-19. Half of them would like to do this as soon as possible.
The presidency welcomes this opinion of the population about the vaccine and affirms that this population would be sufficient to guarantee “herd immunity” in Lithuania.
The Pfizer Covid-19 vaccine, which will arrive in Lithuania at the end of the year, has no rare side effects, the researchers say. It is also claimed that the efficacy of the vaccine is similar for both different age groups and people at risk.
The portal tv3.lt recalls that the first shipment of vaccines against the coronavirus will arrive in Lithuania on December 26, the vaccination will begin on December 27. The vaccines will be provided periodically, according to an established schedule, to all countries of the European Union.
Doctors working in health centers will be vaccinated first. In the second phase, vaccines will be administered to staff and patients in care facilities that provide supportive care and nursing care. These groups should be vaccinated during the first quarter of the year. The public will then be invited to vaccinate after vaccination of the priority groups.
Record number of deaths
Last day 1871 new cases of coronavirus were confirmed, 54 people died from COVID-19, the Department of Statistics said on Tuesday.
3,019 people recovered on the last day. Since the start of the pandemic, COVID-19 has infected 116,000 people in the country. 358 people, 54 thousand. 197 people recovered.
A total of 1,093 people died from coronavirus in Lithuania and 554 people died from other causes.
2,451 COVID-19 patients are treated in hospitals, 186 of them in resuscitation, 1,384 patients need oxygen, 111 people receive artificial lung ventilation.
Currently, slightly less than half of the hospital beds are occupied: 7,986 out of 16,000. 619.
Of the 684 resuscitation beds, 428 were occupied, of the 639 beds that could be subjected to artificial pulmonary ventilation, 265 were occupied and of the 6,374 oxygen beds 2,430 were occupied.
Since the start of the pandemic, COVID-19 has infected 116,000 people in the country. 358 people, 60 thousand. 514 – still ill, 54 Cerdocyon 197 – recovered.
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