Ministry on the case of the Žalgiris Clinic: doctors who do not have an employment contract with a medical institution cannot be vaccinated



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“Individuals who are not employees of a personal health care facility at the time of vaccination: an employment relationship with the institution that provides personal inpatient care services to COVID-19 patients or who work in an emergency department or staff providing emergency inpatient personal care services cannot be vaccinated as employees of a personal health care institution, ”the BNS said in a response Friday.

According to the Ministry, priority should be given to vaccinating physicians who work with COVID-19 patients, as well as emergency department personnel and personnel providing emergency services for hospitalized patients, and volunteers helping patients. physicians in medical institutions for at least 16 hours in two weeks. queues.

Vytautė Pečiulienė, director of the Žalgiris Clinic, told BNS that the teachers have been vaccinated because they have been working with patients and students since February 1; they are temporarily employed according to the usual procedure, since the VU Institute of Dentistry is the clinical base of the institution.

The director also confirmed that among those vaccinated is Laura Linkevičienė, the daughter of Eurozoan Juozas Olekas, who told BNS that she works at the clinic.

Her husband Tomas Linkevičius, who works with her at a private dental clinic, as well as Vytenis Almonaitis, who also has a private office at the Žalgiris Clinic, and Professor Irena Balčiūnienė, retired former director of the Institute of Dentistry, also received the vaccine.

According to V. Pečiulienė, these teachers would not have been vaccinated if the institution had not received a sufficient amount of vaccine.



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