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Roberta Vaičiūnaitė, 23, is living with a kidney transplant and works as a general practice nurse in the Dialysis Department of the Santara Clinics Nephrology Center. According to Clinicas Santara, vaccination is necessary for her both as a high-risk worker and as a patient.
The other two vaccinated patients underwent liver transplants.
Liudas Urbonas, 65, has had viral hepatitis C for many years, damaging her liver. He received antiviral treatment, the hepatitis C virus was successfully eradicated, but due to prolonged illness before antiviral treatment, the liver was irreversibly damaged and liver cancer developed.
In 2019, L. Urbon was urgently placed on the liver transplant waiting list. He was transplanted in June 2020. According to the patient himself, the transplant was a great success, but he has to take the medication at a very precise time at all times.
Another patient, Gintaras Klimas, 48, has been living with a transplanted liver for 14 years. The man says he is happy to have been one of the first to get vaccinated.
Both patients arrived for a scheduled follow-up visit. A visit to a gastroenterologist is necessary to periodically conduct the necessary examinations and adjust the dose of the drug. Both patients were offered the vaccine and agreed, and a pre-vaccination study showed no antibodies in the blood.
According to the deputy director of medicine of the Santara clinics for outpatient and diagnostic work, the gastroenterologist doctor Jolita Jakutienė, vaccination against COVID-19 in high-risk patients is very necessary.
Knowing that they are receiving immunosuppressive medications, these patients have very limited activities, which is why the COVID-19 pandemic puts them at much greater risk than healthy ones.
“Currently lists of patients and information on their willingness to be vaccinated are being compiled, after an organ or bone marrow transplant, patients on hemodialysis and peritoneal dialysis, patients with oncohematological or immunodeficient diseases,” the doctor said, citing the report.
On Tuesday, the second shipment of vaccine (11.7 thousand doses) arrived for the Santara clinics and institutions in the Vilnius region.
As reported by Santara Clinics, all staff at these facilities must be vaccinated before January 15. According to today’s data, 5,000 have already been vaccinated. 130 employees of regional institutions.
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