Doctors Fighting COVID-19 Run Out Of Vaccine Due To Arrogant Behavior From Peers

Non-priority vaccinated groups

Dr. Aurima, who works at the Klaipėda Republican Hospital and the COVID-19 ward of the Šilutė Hospital, shared her experience about vaccination on the social network. The doctor’s husband works in the same department.

According to Aurima, according to the list provided by the Šilutė Hospital, she and her husband had to be vaccinated on Monday.

“I am on duty at the Klaipeda reactor on Sunday, I am asking about the vaccinations, maybe in the morning the vaccination, inform me, because after stand-by you will want to go home, a 60 km trip home. I’m waiting, “wrote the doctor on the social network.

A little later, according to the doctor, the spouse informs him that they will both be vaccinated at 7-8 in the morning, but due to the children who are being cared for by the spouse at that time, they cannot arrive at that time. The vaccination time is moved to 11 hours.

“I finish the shift at 8 o’clock in Klaipeda, without knowledge. 8.40 I’m going home, we have to come back so that we can both get vaccinated. We get dressed at home, one more hour, but we want faster, we dress the children, Aurima recalled.

“The phone rings and the nurse informs us that we have not been vaccinated, because many doctors were not queuing, although the coronavirus patients were not maliciously performing their duties during the cannon firing.

The doctor also says that at that time photos appeared on social media of how the administration of the Republican Hospital Klaipėda was vaccinated, and some colleagues who work with COVID-19, according to the doctor, remained uninformed.

“Some who have been in time and place know better. We called, we answered yes, I had to inform him and vaccinate him, I do not know why he did not inform, we are not responsible. There are no more vaccines, but there will be more. Those who live closer are rushed to the hospital to get vaccinated, everyone gets vaccinated, even those who are sick, ”shared the doctor.

According to the doctor, after the Republican Hospital in Klaipeda received an additional 170 doses, the colleagues had to queue “live” for an hour and a half, and some of them did not get vaccinated because they had to go to work. Also, as the doctor said, there were other doctors in the same queue that were not on the priority list.

“I’m not sorry about the vaccine colleagues, I hope it is enough for everyone, but such an animal order,” Aurima said.

The doctor also added that she had been vaccinated with COVID-19 on Tuesday, but said the waiting time and not knowing when to receive the vaccine was extremely unpleasant.

According to the hospital, vaccines are only on the list

Tomas Grenoveckas, Deputy Medical Director of Šilutė Hospital, also commented on this situation. According to him, 80 doses of the vaccine have been administered for the vaccination of medical staff at the Šilutė Hospital who work directly with coronavirus patients.

The vaccination process took place in the hospital for two days, on December 28. and December 29.

“The vaccination of medical personnel began on December 28 at approximately 8 pm The first 40 workers were vaccinated that day. Today, December 29, another 40 medical workers will be vaccinated. These are doctors, nurses, their assistants who work in the COVID-19 department, Resuscitation-Intensive Care, Reception-Emergency Departments and the Mobile Checkpoint and others who provide emergency care, wrote T. Grenoveckas in his response.

– We inform you that no person in the administration has been vaccinated. The man himself an associate physician providing emergency care is not currently vaccinated. According to him, he was not vaccinated because someone from the workers needs the vaccine more. “

T. Grenoveck assured that the 80 employees of the institution who work in the aforementioned departments and those who are at high risk of developing the COVID-19 disease will be vaccinated. Of these people on the priority list, there is no order in which the first doctor should be vaccinated.

“We are pleased that 80 doses of the vaccine have been received and it can be said that it is reserved for a specific person, so everyone who belongs to the priority groups will be vaccinated,” said the chief. associate physician.

Employees, according to the interviewee, are vaccinated at a convenient time for them.

“It is certainly not the case that only all COVID-19 personnel are vaccinated first, and when they are vaccinated only then, for example, the staff of the Reception-Emergency Department are vaccinated. It also does not matter whether the employee holds the position of department head or not. Employees of the aforementioned departments are being vaccinated, as well as on-call doctors who provide emergency care and counsel patients in the Admission-Emergencies Department, T. Grenoveck said.

– Of course, at first we thought that we would receive 80 vaccines on the same day, but we received it in two days, so perhaps the person was not vaccinated the first day, but the second. Regarding the need for vaccinations, we asked for 84 vaccinations for medical personnel, but we received 80 “.

Vaccination is still in progress

Delfi also contacted the representative of the Republican Hospital Klaipėda (RKL) Marija Gabriene, who assured that everyone in this institution is vaccinated according to the list prepared by the Ministry of Health. People who work with COVID-19 patients, as well as those who work in resuscitation and emergency care, get vaccinated first.

“As you know, the first 10 thousand doses received were distributed to the main Lithuanian hospitals. In the Klaipėda region, they were transferred to the Klaipėda University Hospital. As much as the hospital brings us those vaccines, we also vaccinated them. Yesterday 70 were delivered. doses in the first shipment and people were vaccinated according to the list, ”said a representative from RKL.

According to her, a package of vaccines was delivered shortly after, so that by Tuesday 140 workers had already been vaccinated.

“It is not possible to vaccinate everyone at the same time, it is planned to vaccinate 290 people. They are both willing to get vaccinated. We inform and invite people to receive as many doses as possible, ”said M. Gabrienė.

“Everything is going according to schedule, as planned, and no one who signed up will miss out, everyone will be vaccinated. The question is another: if a person works at Šilutė Hospital, how could they have been on our list? From what I tried to explain, a questionnaire was distributed in our office about who would like who agrees to get vaccinated. She was on our list too. It may be necessary to choose a hospital, ”said a representative from RKL.