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Vaccination is gaining momentum in Klaipeda. The first doses of COVID-19 are given to people 80 years of age or older.
“We are faced with the fact that on Monday he did not want to be vaccinated, he found out on Tuesday morning that a neighbor is going to be vaccinated and we have a good day since 10. We also want to be vaccinated. Over 2000 have enrolled in our clinic. We are vaccinating 80 on the second day. On Monday we vaccinated 82, “says Jadvyga Kateivienė, head of the polyclinic’s laboratory.
It’s not just the elderly who get vaccinated. Teachers are already receiving the first vaccines in some municipalities. It is true, so far not all. The highest priority is given only to pre-school and primary education.
“We are going to vaccinate the social workers, on Tuesday and Wednesday we will vaccinate the school employees with the first dose. We may have fewer institutions, fewer health care institutions, fewer social workers getting vaccinated. It’s just that the circle is spinning faster and those residents have been vaccinated faster, ”says Saulius Jauneika, mayor of Molėtai district.
There is an increase in immunity to physicians mediated by COVID-19. In hospitals treating COVID-19 patients, 16 percent. staff vaccinated 2 times. Almost half: 44 percent. received after the first dose. If we add to those vaccinated those with antibodies that have been found in the past, a total of 4 fifths of hospital workers already have or are developing immunity.
“There is 18 percent in this group who have been sick because they have developed immunity naturally. And if they are tested every few months, when their immunity weakens, they will be vaccinated with COVID-19, ”says Lukas Galkus, representative of the Ministry of Health.
Mindaugas Vaitkus, deputy director of Panevėžys Hospital, says they have 70 percent. workers who have been vaccinated or become ill and already have immunity.
“This immunity is group, collective in a hospital that today reaches 80 patients and more. We are happy because we are not sick, we will not pass the infection to the patients, the work is quite different, much more relaxed ”, he says.
The number of people with immunity is also increasing in care institutions. 41 people received one vaccine and 4% received two vaccines. workers. Almost a third of the workers moved. In total, three-quarters of the staff have or are developing immunity.
As the situation improves, hospitals increase the scope of planned services and operations, and in Panevėžys, doctors have already lined up for patients.
“We opened a 30-bed ward, an internal medicine ward, to treat people with a variety of pathologies who have internal ailments in the stomach, lungs and all the rest. The ambulatory surgery department is also opened and operations are planned. Eye disease, the eye had stopped all surgery, resumed. We resumed operations on the face, nose and throat ”, says M. Vaitkus.
Remigijus Mažeika, director of the Šiauliai Hospital, is also happy to be able to return to a normal life.
“The plan is to clean up hospitals that have a small number of patients and that patients can treat all other diseases. We currently have one, the Pakruojis Hospital,” he adds.
In Lithuania, almost 50 thousand people received only the first dose of the vaccine, more than 23 thousand were vaccinated twice. In Lithuania, according to the Ministries of Health, 223 thousand or 1 in 12 people have immunity. It is true that this number is believed to be several times higher because some people have relapsed into the asymptomatic form of COVID-19.
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