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Klaipeda University Hospital is one of five medical institutions in Lithuania, where vaccination of medical personnel against COVID-19 began on Sunday morning. The institution has more than 1,500 employees. More than a hundred doctors and nurses were vaccinated in the first hours.
The vaccines (2,000 doses of vaccines) against this disease arrived at the Klaipeda University Hospital (KUL), which organizes health care services for COVID-19, on Saturday, the second day of Christmas.
Sunday, starting at 8 pm, the first medical personnel were vaccinated. More than a hundred doctors and nurses were vaccinated in the first hours.
“The first to be vaccinated are the KUL workers, who have to deal with the insidious virus face to face every day. The vaccine will be given as a priority to doctors who work in the highest risk units, to direct contact with people with COVID-19 and employees with a higher probability of being infected with COVID-19, ”said Virgilijus Vanagas, representative of the hospital.
KUL employs more than 1,500 employees. V. Vanagas did not hide that there are many who refused to be vaccinated.
The reasons are not yet known. There is no coercion to vaccinate, the choice is free.
“We don’t collect information on why they refused to get vaccinated, it was just never there. Today, only our hospital employees are vaccinated in our region, tomorrow the vaccines will be distributed to the remaining eight medical institutions in Klaipėda and Tauragė counties, where COVID-19 patients are treated. How do doctors feel after a vaccination? Tap and go: who is home, who is working. There were no side effects like after any other vaccine. Nothing miraculous and nothing exceptional ”, assured V. Vanagas.
Vins Janušonis, KUL’s chief physician, as well as the rest of the hospital administration staff, were not among the first to be vaccinated against the virus.
“Vaccinated workers are divided into risk groups and vaccination will be carried out in stages, depending on how the vaccine is received. Mainly vaccinated by those who work directly with COVID-19 patients or who may have contact with infected people. After all, these patients are operated on and the women who give birth are infected with COVID-19. Thus, the employees who come into contact with them were vaccinated first ”, explained V. Vanagas.
Facebook photo of V. Grubliauskas
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