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Before answering the questions, the clinic management turned to Vytautas Dumbliauskas, a long-time client of the clinic, a professor at Mykolas Romeris University. He told a BNS reporter that the clinic’s management “doesn’t want that article, people don’t want these scandals.”
The director of the institution explained that the vaccinated doctors have come to work at the institution since February 1 and were on the reserve list of people to be vaccinated.
His deputy stated that he had not spoken to V. Dumbliauskas about the article that was being prepared and had not asked to call anyone.
Vaccinated because the vaccine was enough
Vytautė Pečiulienė, director of the Žalgiris Clinic, told BNS that the eight vaccinated teachers will contribute to the institution’s work from February 1 and work with patients and students.
It confirmed that Laura Linkevičienė, daughter of Juozas Olekas, a European MP, and her husband Tomas Linkevičius, who works in a private dental clinic, as well as Vytenis Almonaitis, who also has a private practice at the Žalgiris Clinic, and a retired former director of the Institute of Odontology,
“It just came to our attention then. We have already prepared the contracts for these people to sign from February 1 (…) Since this vaccine was received, there will be a booster shot on the 27th,” said V. Pečiulienė .
“These are our teachers who come to clinical work since February 1. (…) That person comes to a particularly high-risk area to work with patients who do not undergo PCR (COVID-19 tests – BNS), ”said the head of the clinic.
In accordance with the vaccination priority procedure approved by Health Minister Arūnas Dulkis, currently employees of medical institutions and students who provide personal inpatient health care services to COVID-19 patients must be vaccinated first.
V. Pečiulienė stated that these people were included in the vaccination lists as a reserve and that if the clinic had run out of doses, they would not have been vaccinated.
“First of all, there was an admission department (vaccinated – BNS), then the Department of Resuscitation and Intensive Care, then the first Department of Facial and Maxillofacial Surgery, then the second, then the polyclinic staff, followed by the administration and the institute, “said V. Pečiulienė.
According to her, about 25-30 percent. workers refused to be vaccinated, 25 people are sick and are not vaccinated as a result.
Vaccine are also the founders of the institution.
The head of the clinic stated that the Santara clinics, whose staff came to be vaccinated by colleagues from the Žalgiris clinic, indicated the need for 210 doses of the vaccine, as the remaining staff were ill and immunized or refused the vaccine.
206 workers were vaccinated. The clinic employs a total of about 300 people.
L. Linkevičienė also confirmed that she had received the BNS vaccine, said that she was an employee of the Žalgiris Clinic. At the time, her husband T. Linkevičius and his colleague V. Almonaitis said they would not talk about vaccines.
According to the director of the clinic, the professors are temporarily hired according to the usual procedure, since the VU Institute of Dentistry is the clinical base of the institution.
V. Pečiulienė herself said that she too had been vaccinated.
Professor I. Balčiūnienė, who is now retired, considered that she may have received the vaccine because she is one of the founders of the clinic.
“I am the founder of the Žalgiris Clinic and the Institute of Dentistry. I worked full time as a consultant, teacher for 50 years, probably because of that. And now I go to the Žalgiris clinic to consult the patients, I participate in the councils, ”the 79-year-old professor told BNS.
She said she doesn’t have staff in the office, but she is sometimes invited to speak at councils.
Management request through the patient
When BNS became interested in the vaccination procedure at the Žalgiris Clinic, the head of the clinic V. Pečiulienė did not respond by mobile phone on Thursday.
However, a political scientist Vytautas Dumbliauskas called a BNS reporter shortly after asking questions of some vaccinated doctors who were working and not working at the clinic Thursday night.
The latter explained that he had found the journalist’s phone number through an acquaintance and said that the call was encouraged by the latter.
V. Dumbliauskas hinted that, like the BNS reporter, he is from Alytus, and Zita Urbonavičienė, deputy director of economics at the Žalgiris Clinic, who has been familiar with his youth since applying for help, is also from Alytus.
According to V. Dumbliauskas, he hinted that the journalist could decide for himself what to write, but explained that Z. Urbonavičienė informed him about the article that was being prepared and said that “people do not want that article, people do not want those scandals in absolute “and that the subject is” bloated “. .
The political scientist told the journalist that he could not explain to him why the clinic management did not contact him directly and they told him that he would be given the deputy director’s mobile phone number if requested. The journalist did not receive a call from the deputy director.
Sorry for the call
On Friday, when asked by BNS for what purpose and why he called the news agency reporter at the request of the Žalgiris Clinic management, V. Dumbliauskas admitted that he had done so as a satisfied client of the clinic for a long time .
“As they asked me very kindly and I am grateful to those people, I called. But here, of course, unnecessarily … I admit there was nonsense here, “said V. Dumbliauskas on Friday.
When asked if he had tried to influence the journalist in this way, the political scientist denied: “No, well, what can I do, sir …”.
Asked how he himself evaluates the behavior of the clinic’s management when trying to reach journalists through a client of the clinic, the political scientist said that he also found it strange and did not like it.
He admitted that he had acted “foolishly” in this case, as well as unethical as a professor at M. Riomeri University.
“Humanly, I wanted to help with something, but I got, as they say, shit,” concluded the political scientist.
Deputy Director: I didn’t ask for anything
Z. Urbonavičienė, deputy director of the Žalgiris Clinic, denied to BNS on Friday that she had asked a political scientist to contact a BNS journalist, although she admitted that she was looking for him as a “personal matter.”
He did not reveal what the journalist was looking for, but assured that it was not related to BNS’s interest in vaccines at the Žalgiris Clinic.
“I just wanted to speak in person. (….) No no no, he was not related to anyone. (…) I don’t have personal matters, but I wanted to talk, ”said Z. Urbonavičienė.
“I really don’t know why he (V. Dumbliauskas – BNS) called me. (…) No, I didn’t ask. Definitely not,” he added.
At the moment, Z. Urbonavičienė said that he did not need to contact the BNS journalist he was looking for.
“(…) It was just a conversation with people, and how people interpreted and understood something, I can’t really answer. (…) I really don’t know if this is an article in preparation or something. We really don’t get it. It was just a general conversation about acquaintances, something like that ”, said one of the people in charge of the Žalgiris Clinic.
He considered that V. Dumbliauskas’s call could have taken place on his own initiative.
BNS approached the Ministry of Health with a comment on whether the vaccination of people who did not work at the Žalgiris Clinic in this case did not violate the vaccination procedure approved by the Minister. A response was promised later on Friday.
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