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The first patients to be vaccinated at the Santara clinics at 12 hours had undergone liver and kidney transplants.
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. Vaccination is vital to 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. They gave him antiviral treatment, the hepatitis C virus was successfully eradicated, but due to long-term illness before antiviral treatment, the liver was irreversibly damaged. Liver cancer (hepatocellular carcinoma) has developed.
Photo of the Kaunas clinics / Vaccination of patients and employees in the Kaunas clinics
Therefore, in 2019 Urbon was urgently included on the waiting list for liver transplantation. 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. Urbon, who was good and optimistic, said that he was not afraid of vaccines, the vaccine was just one more needle for him: “I want everyone to get vaccinated so that the nation is healthier.”
And here is another patient, Gintaras Klimas, 48, who has been living with a transplanted liver for 14 years. For a normal, normal life, he is grateful to the doctors who performed the transplant perfectly. You often have to share your success story with patients awaiting a liver transplant and encourage them. I am glad to have been one of the first to be vaccinated: “Thanks to the doctors, to Lithuania and to everyone who saved us from this terrible virus.”
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.
I thank the doctors, Lithuania and all those who save us from this terrible virus – said G. Klimas.
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.
Patients vaccinated today will feel much safer and more reassured: “Patient lists and information on their willingness to be vaccinated are currently being developed, after an organ or bone marrow transplant, in hemodialysis and peritoneal dialysis, oncohematological diseases and immunodeficiencies” .
You can find a video of COVID-19 vaccinated patients at the Santara clinics here.
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