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The first five doctors to be vaccinated attended a press conference and shared not only their post-vaccination impressions, but also their experience working with COVID-19 patients. Remigijus Mažeika, director of the Šiauliai Republican Hospital, told reporters that the COVID-19 vaccine is the best Christmas present for the hospital’s doctors.
There is a turning point in the approach to vaccination
Doctors from five infectious disease wards currently in the hospital and two resuscitation and intensive care wards are being vaccinated first. A list of doctors who want to be vaccinated has been compiled. According to director R.Mažeika, when compiling these lists, it was noted that there has been a psychological shift in the approach to vaccines and that what is now seen among doctors has not been seen before.
The first five doctors on the list and vaccinated first. All of them are employees of the five infection wards currently in the hospital: doctors Aidas Kaušas and Judita Minickaitė-Katinienė and nurses Stefanija Jatulevičienė, Zita Rimkuvienė and Kornelija Urlakytė. Irena Gailienė, a general practice nurse in the Department of Pediatric Resuscitation and Intensive Care, is ready to vaccinate all of them and others on this day.
The honor of being the first doctor in a hospital to be vaccinated against the coronavirus was awarded to Stefania Jatulevičienė, a nurse administrator in one of the five infectious disease departments. The Infectious Diseases Department was established at the Fever Clinic and was led by Stefanija, who had worked at the hospital for four decades, although she had not worked before.
Stephanie set the example: be the first. And not just vaccinate. According to the director, she also sets an example at work: she directs nursing, works with patients. For the conscience shown, for the dedication to medicine, the realization that we have to help people, Stephanie and selected to be the first.
The doctor, who has been working at the hospital for four decades, is glad she did not recover while working with infected patients during the pandemic, and can now still get vaccinated.
“Clearly, we did not expect to get that vaccine so quickly. We thought it would all be after the New Year. And today is really a happy holiday, just a continuation of the holidays, and we are happy that we were able to get vaccinated, especially the first ones, “said the doctor without hiding her joy.
Vaccines will help control the situation
Infectious Diseases Aidas Kaušas, head of the Department of Infectious Diseases at the Republican Hospital Šiauliai, was vaccinated against the coronavirus along with the former. After assuring reporters that the vaccination procedure was painless, the doctor who led the entire team of infectious diseases said that all the doctors were waiting for the vaccine.
“We were waiting for that vaccine to control the situation, because we see that otherwise it is impossible to control the virus. People get sick, they get infected, they receive treatment both at home and in hospitals; we see all kinds of situations. And vaccination is a very real way to control this situation ”, says the doctor.
When journalists ask him how to proceed after a vaccination, the doctor assures that there are no special recommendations, so he advises to act as after the flu or another vaccine.
“All we know is that the vaccine given today does not open up new possibilities, because there will be another vaccine after which immunity will develop.” Then, until more people are vaccinated, we will also have summer, “said the doctor, who said that people who have been sick will develop a better and natural immunity, which can last about eight months. However, data on vaccine-induced immunity are not yet available and cannot be obtained; It will take time.
This vaccine is very important for doctors, as it will begin to regulate the flow of people to medical institutions. According to A. Kaušas, doctors will be able to return to normal life again, they will be able to treat other infectious diseases, which now seem to have disappeared.
“We work and we don’t get sick”
The infectologist Judita Minickaitė, who treated the first COVID-19 patient in Šiauliai and across the country, also recalled the beginning of the pandemic, when there were more fears not only that doctors would get sick, but also of bringing the virus home. . Later, loved ones were also afraid of getting infected and getting sick.
Little by little, that fear faded when everyone realized that it was possible to work and not get infected. And now ask when you will take the smear and what the test results will be.
“The security measures are good, we work and protect like our colleagues abroad. We see what tools are used in other countries, we have them, so we both work and we don’t get sick ”, said the doctor and assures that it will not be possible to relax completely even after vaccination, because we have to wait for the development of the immunity.
According to director R.Mažeika, Šiauliai, like all of Europe, will receive the second shipment of the vaccine at the same time. This will facilitate the work of the doctors and reduce the anxiety of the patients, as the doctors can also be distributors of the insidious virus. Therefore, the message that doctors are vaccinated and will no longer get sick is very important to patients. This will also reduce the impact of other late diseases in humans.
Republican Hospital Šiauliai employs more than 1,200 doctors, some 400 have already had COVID-19. Lists of people who want to be vaccinated not only by doctors but also by other professions are already being compiled. All doctors working in medical institutions are scheduled to be vaccinated during the first quarter of the year.
At the vaccination post, which was installed in the physiotherapy room of the Conservative Medicine Clinic and worked as the nursing administrator of the Inga Budrienė Women’s and Children’s Clinic, this working day was truly festive since the whole day was surrounded in great humor. Doctors were happy to be vaccinated and even more happy when the vaccine did not cause any adverse reactions.
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