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Feliksas Jankevičius. Photo by Rokas Lukoševičius (15min.lt / Scanpix).
Doctors who reject the COVID-19 vaccine will not be able to work with seriously ill patients, says Feliksas Jankevičius, director of the Santara clinics.
“It just came to our attention then. They will not be able to work in places where there are patients with a higher risk of getting sick and having fatal complications from coronavirus infection, we will have to redistribute these doctors to other workplaces,” said F. Jankevičius in a press conference on Sunday.
He says that so far there have been no health professionals who have refused to be vaccinated at the Santara clinics.
The Vilnius region has received 2,925 doses of the first batch of vaccines, which are intended to be vaccinated by more than a thousand doctors from the Santara clinics of around fifteen hundred specialists on the priority vaccination list.
According to F. Jankevičius, Vilnius City Clinical doctors Mykolas Marcinkevičius, Vilnius University Hospital, as well as Alytus and Ukmerg be hospitals will be vaccinated.
“In what proportions? Today, we have dedicated 30% of the list of priority doctors that each hospital has to provide ”, he commented.
According to the head of the Santara clinics, 700 Vilnius County doctors are scheduled to be vaccinated on the first day of COVID-19.
Ligita Jančorienė, director of the Center for Infectious Diseases of the Santara Clinics, stated that the doctor will be vaccinated with the second dose in three weeks.
“After three more weeks and seven days, people who have been vaccinated today will be able to breathe,” he said.
The first doctors to begin vaccinating the COVID-19 vaccine, developed by BioNTech and Pfizer at five central treatment facilities in the country began Sunday morning.
This vaccine is administered twice with an interval of three weeks after the first vaccination and adequate protection of the immune system is achieved one week after the second vaccination.
The first shipment with 9,750 doses of vaccine arrived in Lithuania on Saturday morning and was stored in the warehouses of the Health Emergencies Center. During the day, the vaccine was distributed to hospitals in Vilnius, Kaunas, Klaipėda, Šiauliai and Panevėžys, which are responsible for the management of COVID-19 in the regions.
Vilnius and Kaunas Counties received 2,925 doses of vaccine, Klaipėda County 1,950, and Šiauliai and Panevėžys 975 doses each.
It is planned to use all the vaccines received on Saturday when the first doctors are vaccinated. The second dose for these co-vaccinated personnel, who need to be vaccinated after 21 days, will be administered in subsequent shipments.
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