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“Kaunas, along with other municipalities in the country, has been organizing the vaccination of the population for more than two months with considerable success. During that time, the doctors and public health professionals at the city’s polyclinic have accumulated a wealth of experience, with useful insights that we feel compelled to share with government decision-makers.
The supply of vaccines is still almost the only problem, and now that one of them has been stopped, this problem has become even more acute, ”says the mayor of Kaunas, V. Matijošaitis, in a press release issued by the Kaunas city municipality.
Eriko Ovcharenko / 15min nuotr./Visvaldas Matijošaitis
In his speech to the Prime Minister and Minister of Health, V. Matijošaitis presented two essential proposals. One refers to school personnel working in primary and secondary education programs. It is proposed to expand the current list of priorities for the vaccination queue to include the entire remaining educational community.
“Until now, primary school teachers have been a priority for only a small part of the entire educational community. Most of them have already been vaccinated, but we cannot leave the fate of others who work with final students to their will. year Regardless of the safety measures that are taken, a significant number of educators would really like to get vaccinated, so it is our duty to make sure they do.
Otherwise, we do not have the moral right to demand that teachers go back to work, because there are many older people among them, for whom the disease can be especially dangerous, ”emphasized V. Matijošaitis.
He also drew attention to the current situation regarding the temporary suspension of the AstraZeneca vaccine. Based on the comments of the majority of the medical community and public health specialists, as well as the opinions of Kaunas residents themselves, V. Matijošaitis suggests to the Government representatives that they consider allowing this vaccine is vaccinated by anyone who wants it. .
Responding to the opinions of the urban population, hoping that the European Medicines Agency clears any doubts about the use of one of the vaccines as soon as possible, we sufficiently inform that there are enough conscientious citizens who objectively evaluate the benefits and risks. of the vaccine.
The decision of the Ministry of Health to allow the municipalities to vaccinate AstraZeneca with all those who wish to do so would allow us to take into account the opinion of the population and show the real situation regarding the popularity of this vaccine ”, the mayor of Kaunas is convinced . .
The municipality of the city of Kaunas has already approached the Government with proposals on the management of the COVID-19 situation. One of them is the initiative presented on the last day of last year to include at least primary school teachers on the priority list for people to be vaccinated. This decision was soon implemented.
Earlier, the Kaunas City Municipality announced that following the Health Ministry’s decision to suspend vaccination with the AstraZeneca vaccine in Lithuania, visits by Kaunas residents scheduled for March 17 were also canceled. Registered residents were informed about this by short SMS messages the day before.
On Wednesday, 1,290 residents were registered for vaccinations at the Kaunas AstraZeneca Vaccination Center. They will be notified of the new vaccination schedule by an additional message.
More than 6.7 thousand LTL have been allocated to the city of Kaunas for the next week. Pfizer vaccines. Vaccination with these vaccines continues, but only registered patients, that is, those who should have been vaccinated with a paused AstraZeneca vaccine and whose vaccination has been delayed, cannot be re-vaccinated with the Pfizer vaccine.
Revaccination with AstraZeneca is scheduled for early May. More information on the reintroduction of this vaccine should be provided in light of the evaluations and conclusions of the European Medicines Agency.
The municipality also recalls that the activities of the only electronic COVID-19 vaccine registration system operating in Lithuania are gaining momentum in Kaunas so far. Even people of respectable age in Kaunas, with the help of their loved ones, find the opportunity to register faster and more conveniently.
The first week shows, according to the representatives of the municipality, quite optimistic that sooner or later it will be properly prepared for universal vaccination. Of course, as long as the vaccination processes are resumed after the halt and at a sufficient rate as the supply of vaccines is accelerated.
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