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Mayors of municipalities queuing live for priority groups urge central government to assign more responsibilities for pandemic management to private polyclinics, allow more extensive vaccination of less demanding vaccines beyond priority groups, and distribute all types of vaccines to all municipalities.
Klaipeda asks for vaccination
According to the mayor of BNS, Vytautas Grubliaukas, when the municipality allows to choose the type of vaccine, the majority of the population wants to be vaccinated with other vaccines, and AstraZeneca continues to accumulate. The municipality, which promises to vaccinate all the people in the priority groups with this vaccine during the weekend, is waiting for a more extensive vaccination to be allowed for everyone who wants.
“Vaccination should be allowed to those who want to be vaccinated with that vaccine, and I think that would be a great advance,” said the mayor of the port city.
“The biggest problem is an unused vaccine, it’s a simple saying: give free vaccines free and then apparently everything will be solved soon enough,” he said.
According to him, the municipality is currently completing the registration of registered residents of the older age groups and has started vaccinating officials.
Klaipeda has planned spaces for mass vaccination, where it could serve a greater number of people, but they are not yet available.
“If there is a need, we would also discover spaces, we have commented on it. One of them is, of course, the Fishermen’s Palace, the other is perhaps even larger spaces, but as long as there are no queues waiting for the vaccine, and there is no place to inject the vaccine, there is no point in keeping the vaccine. reserved spaces, but we are determined ”, said Meras.
Širvintos would like to include private medical institutions
This week, the “live tail” principle was one of the first to be tested in the Širvintos district, where, according to the municipality, AstraZeneca, around 150 people over 65 years of age have been vaccinated in the last day. According to the district mayor Živilė Pinskuvienė, this result, taking into account that people are vaccinated more slowly with this vaccine, is not a bad thing.
“When so many people refused to be vaccinated after medical calls, people came,” said Živilė Pinskuvienė, mayor of Širvintos district.
The municipality plans to apply this procedure once a week.
According to her, the municipality observes the discrepancy between the delivery of different vaccines and has asked the Ministry of Health to clarify how the vaccines are distributed.
“We have nothing but a few dozen Pfizer and a bunch of AstraZenecos. And when that wave was for AstraZeneca, people didn’t want to, because they really want to get vaccinated with Pfizer. There are several lists, we have all those people and the outpatient clinic has called, so if we had a different vaccine we would get everything even faster, ”said the mayor.
Another problem that the municipality faces is human resources: its outpatient personnel have to test the population and vaccinate it. Ž. Pinskuvienė calls on the ministry to force private medical institutions to contribute to this process, as they are currently slow to contribute to joint work.
“The Ministry of Health leaves all decisions to the municipality. The municipality must assign the agency to perform all these vaccinations, tests, all other procedures related to Covid. And, of course, it goes down to the municipal polyclinics, ”said Ž. Pinskuvienė.
“We have two private centers in the Širvintos district. The same doctors. They do not have tasks from the Government, the Seimas, the Ministry. Everyone receives the same money for everyone. And if there are three, four, five thousand people registered in private centers, it must be an obligation of the ministry that these private centers treat those people in the same way, vaccinate them and fully participate in this process, “he said. .
The situation in Šalčininkai has improved slightly
The mayor of the Šalčininkai district, Zdzislavas Palevičius, told BNS that the changes in vaccination had a negligible result.
“We are observing and analyzing that things have moved. We didn’t have any problems with Pfizer-BioNTech and Moderna either: we got them, we use them, but people are already more active, but ice cream has also moved with AstraZeneca, said Z. Palevičius.
“Of course, there have been and are difficulties with this vaccine, but we believe that people will get vaccinated in the future,” he added.
According to the Department of Statistics, in the last two days 100 people have been vaccinated with the first dose in Šalčininkai district, nine of them AstraZeneca. Šalčininkai district is one of the least vaccinated Lithuanian municipalities.
The mayor assures that the municipality is offering the AstraZeneca vaccine, which is why he himself has been vaccinated these days.
It also states that AstraZeneca has been vaccinated slightly more than the Statistics Department.
“To set an example and encourage people, people followed me too. I have information that about 30 people were vaccinated with this vaccine yesterday, “said the Šalčininkai district chief.
According to him, there are currently around 600 doses of the AstraZeneca vaccine in stock; people are choosing other vaccines.
“Everybody unequivocally wants the Pfizer-BioNTech or Moderna vaccine,” said Z. Palevičius.
Not everyone comes, but there is no balance
Alytus Deputy Mayor Jurgita Šukevičienė says that AstraZeneca vaccines do not accumulate in warehouses, but not everyone is invited to get vaccinated with this vaccine.
“Before, before there were problems with AstraZeneca, two out of three guests came, now one in two people come on average. 265 of the 500 people invited to receive the AstraZeneca vaccine came yesterday.
According to her, there are currently around 800 doses of the AstraZeneca vaccine in Alytus, but the city received them this week as an additional rapid vaccine.
“So far we have vaccinated all the vaccines in one week (…) So far we are not doing well,” said J. Šukevičienė.
He reported that the vaccination of people over 65 has already been completed in Alytus, so far there is no thought of a live tail in Širvintos.
“We are not thinking yet, because we are going through priorities. If a person refuses to be vaccinated with AstraZeneca, then we register them to be vaccinated with the vaccine of their choice, when we receive one, and we continue to lower the priorities and thus find people who get vaccinated, “said the deputy mayor. by Alytus.
Residents can choose which vaccine to vaccinate from last Friday.
In Lithuania and several other European countries, vaccination with AstraZeneca was temporarily suspended last week due to identified cases of thromboembolism in vaccinated people.
The European Medicines Agency (EMA) has subsequently stated that the COVID-19 vaccine is safe and effective, and that vaccination has been resumed, but also said that it could not “definitively rule out a link” between the rare blood clots and the vaccine. more research on these rare cases.
In order to boost public confidence in this vaccine, the country’s leaders, vaccinated ministers and members of the Seimas have been vaccinated with it.
