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The Vilnius, Kaunas, Klaipėda, Šiauliai and Panevėžys hospitals agreed to start the vaccination process at the same time, at 8 am. All doctors in the country are expected to be vaccinated in the first quarter of next year.
Five vaccination centers, Vilnius University Hospital, Santara Clinic, Lithuanian University Hospital of Health Sciences, Kaunas Hospital, Klaipėda University Hospital, Šiauliai Republican Hospital, Panevėžys Republican Hospital, distributed the vaccine received to health institutions in your region that care for patients with the COVID-19 disease. who are exposed to coronavirus face to face on a daily basis.
“It is significant that the doctors from five main hospitals and organizers in Lithuania started vaccination at the same time. It shows the unity of all our doctors in this fight. It is important that healthcare professionals working on front-line COVID-19 patients get vaccinated first. This is the greatest gift for people in the health sector ”, said Prof. Managing Director of Kaunas Clinics. skilled. Dr. Renaldas Jurkevičius.
The first doses of the vaccine are administered to COVID-19 ward workers, emergency department workers, and others who are at high risk of developing COVID-19. According to the director of one of the largest COVID-19 treatment institutions, Clinicas Santara, prof. Feliksas Jankevičius, from now on, everything is fine!
“Vaccines are based on science. It is the hope of returning to a normal rhythm of work and life. Like a light in extreme tension in the last months. the doctors will defeat the insidious virus, ”shared the nurse of the Infectious Corps of the Klaipėda University Hospital, who was vaccinated on Sunday.
“This vaccine is very important for doctors, because it will regulate the flow of people to medical institutions, and doctors will be able to return to normal life, treat other infectious diseases, which now seem to have disappeared,” said Aidas, Head of the Department of Šiauliai Republican Hospital Infectious Diseases. Cubes
Lithuania has entered into agreements with six vaccine manufacturers and intends to purchase more than 7 million of them. dose of vaccine. They should be sufficient to vaccinate at least 70%. population of the country. According to experts, such a proportion of the vaccinated population would guarantee herd immunity against the coronavirus.
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