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SAM: AstraZeneca was not vaccinated on Wednesday
People have not yet been vaccinated with the AstraZeneca vaccine, data from the previous days are included on Wednesday, the Health Ministry informed BNS on Thursday.
Statistics show that 99 people were vaccinated with AstraZeneca on Wednesday.
“These figures do not mean that people were vaccinated on March 17. Some institutions enter data into the system later due to workload or other characteristics of the work organization. There are human factors to understand: it is more important to vaccinate more people and postpone introduction into the system for a reasonable period of time, ”explained the representative of the Minister of Health, Aistė Šuksta.
“People were not vaccinated with this vaccine on Wednesday,” he added.
A representative of the Vilnius District Polyclinic changed the version
By Wednesday, vaccines were included in the districts of Klaipėda, Akmenė, Varėna and other municipalities.
The Klaipėda City BNS, Akmenė and Varėna district offices that carried out the vaccination confirmed that after receiving the SAM instruction on Tuesday evening, AstraZeneca was no longer used on Wednesday, and the data was moved to the next day after checking in late at night. .
Daiva Kubaitienė, deputy chief physician of the Vilnius district polyclinic, told BNS on Wednesday that five people had been vaccinated with the vaccine at the polyclinic’s outpatient clinic in Rudamina in the early hours of Wednesday, but later denied it.
“On March 16, 13 vaccines were administered and signed late at night. But on the 17th, we also did five, because we had called people early in the morning, we had not made a decision. They reported, everything is in order, but our own information before going to the outpatient clinic … they vaccinated the remaining five doses early in the morning, starting at 7 am, starting on the 16th, Rudamina outpatient ”, said D. Kubaitien. BNS.
He later contacted the BNS and presented another version: that the vaccination took place on Tuesday and that the data was simply collected later.
“The data was added the next day,” he said. D. Kudabienė did not explain why he presented different versions.
One such case was registered in Kaunas. Paulius Kibiša, director of the Kaunas City Polyclinic, also stated that the AstraZeneca vaccine was not vaccinated on Wednesday, and the case probably means that the form due to the vaccine entered the electronic health system the next day.
What does the data show?
They were not delivered until Thursday afternoon. As you have reported to BNS Statistics Lithuania, it is currently being explained why this has happened.
The data began to appear after the BNS request.
The data shows that the vaccination with AstraZeneca was carried out on Wednesday in the districts of Klaipėda, Akmenė, Varėna and other municipalities. For example, 34 people were vaccinated with the first dose of AstraZeneca in Klaipeda on Wednesday and 24 people in Akmenė district. One of those injections was done in Kaunas.
Meanwhile, representatives of the Department of Statistics to the news portal lrytas.lt He assured that the table showing vaccination data was not automatically updated this morning due to technical obstacles, which could have led to a technical error. “We obtain the data from e. health – as summed up there, that’s right. We can’t say why AstraZeneca is still there, ”commented the Statistics Department.
Letter late?
However, Daiva Kubaitienė, deputy chief physician of the Vilnius district polyclinic, confirmed to BNS that five people were vaccinated here on Wednesday morning because they did not provide timely information about the suspension of vaccination against AstraZeneca to the polyclinic unit. in Rudamina.
“On March 16, 13 vaccines were administered and signed late at night. But on the 17th, we also did five, because we had called people early in the morning, we had not made a decision. They reported, everything is in order, but our own information before going to the outpatient clinic … they vaccinated the remaining five doses early in the morning, starting at 7 am, starting on the 16th, Rudamina outpatient ”, said D. Kubaitien. BNS.
According to her, the information on the suspension of the vaccine could not be sent to the external consultation because the letter from the ministry was received “outside working hours.”
Suspect that he entered the next day
Paulius Kibiša, director of the Kaunas City Polyclinic, told BNS that the registered case probably means that the form due to the vaccine entered the e-health system the next day.
“It was probably signed here and incorporated into eHealth that way, because that’s where the Statistics Department takes it. It could have been confirmed at night by someone from the doctors or when you got to work the next day, the form 63 that enters the records and will enter that day, ”said P. Kibiša.
“I can assure you that we have not really vaccinated anyone,” he added.
According to the Statistics Department, a total of 2,452 people and 6,226 people were vaccinated with the first dose of the vaccine on Wednesday.
Made a decision on Tuesday
On Tuesday night, Health Minister Arūnas Dulkys announced the temporary suspension of vaccination with the AstraZeneca vaccine until the European Medicines Agency presents final conclusions on the connection of thromboembolic cases with the vaccine. The minister expected the EEA’s conclusion to be clear on Thursday.
He stated that the decision was made on the basis of the relevant recommendation of the State Medicines Control Agency.
On the same day, the European Medicines Agency said there was “no indication” that a vaccine developed by AstraZeneca and the University of Oxford could cause blood clots in some people who had been vaccinated.
