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Deputy Health Minister Živilė Simonaitytė announced that the termination of the contract with the company, which had won the tender for the transport of “frozen” vaccines, but previously only produced food, is being considered.
Laimutis Paškevičius, president of the Association of Private Health Institutions, who participated in the Seimas SRK meeting, stated that individuals currently have a lot of work to do:
“Private institutions are working very hard now, and that makes sense, because some public institutions are closed and some doctors are sick.”
Offers help with vaccine transportation.
According to L. Paškevičius, private institutions could participate more actively in the last stage of vaccination against COVID-19:
“Private institutions see their important contribution to the secondary process. We have made suggestions in writing so that the family medicine network, together with public and private institutions, can participate in the most effective way in the secondary vaccination process, since GPs know their patients better and can persuade them to get vaccinated ”.
Photo by Sigismund Gedvila / 15min / Laimutis Paškevičius
According to L. Paškevičius, individuals could also help with the transportation of COVID-19 vaccines.
“We have presented a proposal for laboratories belonging to our association. They have a huge logistics system and are ready to ship vaccines to over 300 locations on their own if required. They have portable refrigerators and other equipment ”, assured the president of the association. According to him, one of the members of the association also has three refrigerators necessary to transport the “frozen” vaccines.
Remigijus Žemaitaitis, a member of the parliamentary SRK who works in a mixed group of Seimas members, was surprised that this proposal was not used.
“Why was this service not used, if it was offered for free, and why was so much money spent on it?” He asked, noting that the transport of part of the COVID-19 vaccines for 462 thousand. A company without that experience and that previously was dedicated solely to the production of vegan food will take over the euro.
The ministry criticizes the quality of transport
The Vice Minister of Health, Ž.Simonaitytė, assured that the contract for the transport of vaccines with the aforementioned company was terminated and a new tender was announced.
“Yes, we inherited the purchase, which began in early December. <...> We have a reality, like many other things we have inherited, we already have to accept it here. We do not justify, we are currently evaluating the situation.
It seems that we are moving towards the termination of that contract because we are not satisfied with the quality of the services of the operator. We are discussing how to announce a new contract, involving both the Central Procurement Organization and, as observers, the representatives of the Public Procurement Office in the commission, so that there are no similar problems, ”said the Vice Minister.
We are leaning towards termination of that contract.
L. Paškevičius assured that there is a lack of transparency in the vaccination of doctors.
“The municipalities that coordinate each have unclear processes and procedures,” he said.
Do not receive invitations to vaccinate
According to L. Paškevičius, some of the doctors working in private institutions do not receive invitations to get vaccinated.
“Some of the doctors who belong to the same profession, who do not work in COVID-19 departments, organizing institutions or other public institutions, have been vaccinated, and the same doctors who in private institutions have not even received invitations. I believe that control, supervision and coordination are necessary ”, said a representative of the private health institutions.
He also suggested reviewing the list of priority group vaccines approved by order of the Minister, according to which family doctors who visit COVID-19 patients at home should be above it.
The list, he said, should also include hemodialysis services staff in private institutions, private dentists who provide services, and COVID-19 patients.
Ask for patients to be sent to rehab
Artūras Salda, president of the National Association of Sanatoriums and Rehabilitation Institutions, called for a more active provision of rehabilitation services to those who have contracted COVID-19 and are experiencing residual phenomena.
This would benefit not only patients but also the institutions themselves.
“Such rehabilitation is necessary and it would be very necessary that the will of the politicians, the decisions and the will of the Health Committee foresee the referral of these patients to the necessary rehabilitation, because, according to today’s data, almost 170 thousand need it. . there are patients with about 100,000. recovered.
This would allow people to improve their health, as well as allow medical rehabilitation institutions to survive, not by charity or subsidies, but by providing necessary services for the state, ”said A. Salda at the Seimas SRK Committee meeting.
Gintaras Kacevičius, director of the State Health Insurance Fund, said that there are no problems admitting people to rehabilitation clinics.
Photo by Sigismund Gedvila / 15min / Amber Kacevicius
“There is no problem here, there is a corresponding fee, those patients will be paid. I just assume that their flow will be greatly reduced now due to the decrease in new cases,” he said.
Municipal vaccination at different rates
Goda Keso, Health Advisor of the Association of Municipalities of Lithuania, who spoke about the participation of individuals in the treatment of patients with COVID-19, assured that not all institutions do so.
“In some municipalities, private institutions are quite involved, in others there is no contribution. During the first quarantine, they were generally closed, “said a representative of the association.
Municipalities, he said, are now not responding to calls from residents concerned about vaccination:
“We are very short of a clear and specific publicity campaign from the Ministry of Health, because the municipalities are now overwhelmed with calls, due to vaccines, now many people, companies, organizations, etc. are calling crazy.”
G.Keso also drew attention to the vaccination procedure for priority population groups approved by the Minister – that the size of the municipalities was not taken into account in its elaboration.
There is dissatisfaction with the fact that vaccination is faster in some municipalities and slower in others.
“When the small municipalities move to the higher vaccination priorities, the additional chain, while the large municipalities still vaccinate the previous priority groups. There is discontent with the fact that vaccination is faster in some municipalities and slower in others ”, said the advisor to the Association of Municipalities.
According to her, there is a lack of specificity due to one provision: according to her, the vaccination of “others” will be started, that is, the vaccination of employees of personal health care institutions not previously vaccinated.
“There will definitely be dissatisfaction with who will get vaccinated first,” Keso said.
Ice vaccines cannot be redistributed.
Ž.Simonaitytė explained that it is not possible to redistribute “frozen” vaccines among municipalities if vaccination rates are not the same.
And the differences are due to the fact that different numbers of people in municipalities have COVID-19 antibodies.
“Antibody tests are being carried out in a municipality, it is found that more people have natural antibodies and the municipality continues to advance along the priority line. And in other municipalities, where this group of people is smaller, they continue to work with higher priority, ”said the vice minister.
Photo by Lukas Balandis / 15min / Živilė Simonaitytė
“The vaccine is very specific, a cold road vaccine, and it is not possible to transport it from one municipality to another once distributed. <...> “We are in jail here for the cold vaccine and unfortunately we cannot do those redistributions,” he added.
Do redistributions, sadly, but we can’t.
Responding to proposals from individuals to get involved in the COVID-19 vaccination process, Ž.Simonaitytė stated that their help could be needed by inviting people to get vaccinated.
“We are discussing with the municipalities and we will probably move towards the decision that it would be best to involve family doctors in the vaccination process, which should be the main ones, but the final decisions have not been made,” said the vice minister.
Lithuanian residents are currently vaccinated with two types: CONID-19 vaccines from BioNTech and Pfizer and Moderna.
They must be transported in special equipment to maintain a certain temperature.
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