I. Šimonytė on people who are not vaccinated against COVID-19 according to priority: how can broken trust be assessed?



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I.Šimonytė shared the Statistics Department scoreboard on his Facebook account and was pleased that the data on the vaccination against coronavirus in Lithuania is publicly available here.

“The good news is that there is already a public resource that can track relevant information about the vaccination process, where the data is presented in various sections.

While the number of vaccines is modest, the numbers are not impressive, but it is important that the process accelerate. For those who are angry about the ‘low vaccines’ I would like to remind you that half a year ago, no one believed that now we would have all three, not just the vaccine (including Astra Zeneca, which is not yet registered in the EU).

It is clear that when a newly created item is approved as fit for use, which is necessary for everyone at the same time, no manufacturer can meet the need even closely without additional production capacity. But it is also on the way, at least Pfizer intends to expand them substantially and quickly. “

However, the Prime Minister did not hide her disappointment at the non-priority vaccination of people in Lithuania.

“The bad news is: In those sections, you won’t see the stories we see almost every day that one vaccine or another, in a very limited supply, may not have made it to someone who should have it in order of priority. And I’m very sorry. that once again someone in the Government has to answer questions, how do we evaluate that?

How can one assess the broken trust, which in such a process can only be shown to the heads of the institutions, because neither the Government Chancellery nor the Ministry have the opportunity to collect tens of thousands of vaccination lists and personally verify whether the vaccinated has a “coupon”?

Heads of institutions have a responsibility not only to the public to make proper use of vaccines obtained at taxpayers’ expense, but also to their teams: to act transparently and clearly, discuss specific priorities with the people who administer or their representatives. And the reserve lists that are necessary if someone refuses or cannot vaccinate must also be made in a transparent way.

However, the prime minister writes in her account, what surprises her most is the naivety of people who are not vaccinated as a priority, that these stories will not come to light.

“When I was eight years old, when I came home from the bath and wanted to hide the fact of the bath from my mother, I put it on the base of the bed. I acted very stupid, but it was a boy.

It’s impossible to hide things like this and not even try.

The belief that it is somehow possible to hide misconduct, or perhaps even “agree” with the media that no one should write anything, is not childish naivety. During the first wave, the media flickered with medical information about security measures, and the heads of institutions often agreed that everything was and was enough.

It’s impossible to hide things like this and not even try. Then you won’t have to communicate with journalists in such a way that your teeth start to hurt when you read the dialogue, ”writes I. Šimonytė.

“I know how often managers of the education, health and social care systems are offered responsibility while offering nothing at the same time, just the right to be punished if something is missing. However, when resources are provided, it is the manager’s responsibility to use them in a way that decisions are understandable and explainable.

Doctors working on the front lines of Covido didn’t have priority just for themselves.

Doctors working on the front lines of Covido didn’t have priority just for themselves. Other priorities will follow, which are not yet defined by age, the only objective and uninterpretable criterion. All of them require a great responsibility on the part of the approvers of specific lists of people to be vaccinated, so that the vaccination process is not compromised and the authorities, who have to deal with many other issues at the same time, are introduced in investigations that time consuming.

If you have been invited to the vaccine, even though you know it probably shouldn’t be on the list, also think about whether you would like to see unknown numbers on your phone and find out how you can explain your success here, ”the Prime Minister writes.

On Friday, it became clear that professors from the VU Institute of Dentistry who did not have an employment contract had been vaccinated at the Žalgiris Clinic. The Department of Health (SAM) says that these workers could not be vaccinated in this case.

Saturday 15 minutes Ričardas Ūselis, the head of the Ambulansas company, which operates a private ambulance station in Šilalė, and his relatives who came from Vilnius, were vaccinated on Thursday with the COVID-19 vaccine for doctors.



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