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According to the plan of the Ministry of Health, other doctors and other groups in the population will be vaccinated with new doses of vaccine later on arrival in Lithuania.
At the meeting of the Committee on National Security and Defense of the Seimas, Lukas Galkus, specialist of the Division of Information Technology and Electronic Health Systems of SAM, stated that at the end of the first quarter it should deliver enough vaccines for doctors, residents of residences and elderly Lithuanians over 80 years of age.
“Both must be turned in, but keep in mind that Moderna and Astra Zeneca and other vaccines will come.
By the end of March, the whole process should be in full swing, at least in our imaginations. We can talk about the advance earlier, ”said SAM specialist L. Galkus.
First of all, about 10 thousand. vaccine dose
The Seimas committee presented that the first match to come to Lithuania should be up to 10 thousand. units.
Audrius Ščeponavičius, head of the Department of Public Health in the Ministry of Health, pointed out on Wednesday that this information is constantly changing, so on Wednesday afternoon the EU vice ministers will meet with the European Commission, as many countries want specificity on vaccine delivery schedules.
He stressed that if the vaccines were delivered to Lithuania from December 25 to 26, everything would be ready to be accepted.
According to him, the country is ready for the logistics and delivery of the vaccine, and the acquisition of the necessary equipment has begun. It is planned, as reported by the representative of the SAM, that the registration for vaccination will be done through the short telephone number 1808 that is already operational.
“First of all, it would be handed over to five organizing hospitals,” said A. Ščeponavičius.
The committee emphasized that there are around 40,000 doctors in Lithuania. About 5,000 would be vaccinated first. medication, as a second dose must be administered one month after the first vaccination.
He said vaccination with coronavirus patients would also be recommended.
Headache of the heads of medical institutions: how many vaccines will there be?
Professor Feliksas Jankevičius, director of the Santara clinics, said that they are now concerned about the number of vaccines because they want to vaccinate all doctors.
“The concern at the moment is the quantity of vaccines. Our concern to vaccinate all employees {…} The quantity of those vaccines is, of course, very small what we plan to receive. There are 7,000 employees in the clinics alone. with the residents, this amount will be necessary ”, said the head of the clinics.
Professor Renaldas Jurkevičius, director of the Kaunas clinics, also pointed out that it is necessary to know the exact dates when vaccines will arrive at medical institutions and in what quantities.
“It would be important to keep hospitals clean as soon as possible, with vaccinated staff. I agree with Professor F. Jankevičius, we should start from the first chain. {…} We will start with those people,” said R. Jurkevičius.
He said doctors could start vaccinating at Christmas. According to R. Jurkevičius, the Kaunas clinics also have two suitable refrigerators, which could store around 40 thousand. vaccinations
“So far, they have not asked us for help, for storage.” … if the confirmation is on the 21st, it is likely that the vaccines will arrive during Christmas and Christmas, which is a good time to vaccinate medical personnel “, he said, urging to get ready today.
According to him, it would not be possible to vaccinate the entire medical ward at the same time, because after the vaccination it is possible to have a short-term fever, so several people from different wards should be vaccinated.
Dust: “We only have more than 40 thousand medical communities”
On Monday, Health Minister Arūnas Dulkys declared that the first 9,750 COVID-19 vaccines should arrive in Lithuania in the first days of January.
According to A. Dulkis, a person will need two doses of the vaccine. Doctors, nurses and healthcare workers, and people at risk, will be vaccinated first.
“We only have more than 40,000 medical communities,” he said.
According to the minister, the vaccination process in Lithuania “will take some time”.
Currently, the European Medicines Agency is testing coronavirus vaccines developed by pharmaceutical companies. It should decide in the near future whether to grant a conditional marketing authorization for the vaccine being developed by BioNTech and Pfizer.
The European Medicines Agency should make a decision on the vaccine developed by Moderna before 12 January. The supervisory authority is also verifying a vaccine developed by AstraZeneca in collaboration with the University of Oxford, as well as a preparation by Johnson & Johnson.
Lithuanian experts also participate in the evaluation of vaccines against coronavirus
We remind you that we have already announced that the European Medicines Agency (EMA), together with experts from Lithuania, is evaluating vaccines and should decide in December whether the vaccine can be registered and start the logistics process. However, right now, experts are asking a lot of questions and looking for answers: what should not be vaccinated, should people who have been vaccinated be vaccinated?
Gytis Andriulionis, Head of State Medicines Control, stated that his service and experts are currently involved in the evaluation of vaccines at the European Medicines Agency. Experts evaluate: what have been the clinical trials, what is the effectiveness, what are the side effects, what are the side effects and how to reduce them? When registering, consider what age group to assign.
“All of these things are appreciated now and there are many challenges here. What cannot be vaccinated, for certain age groups or for certain diseases? Vaccination of relapsers raises many questions. Vaccination of vulnerable groups, such as the elderly, pregnant women and the like.
A vaccine from certain manufacturers may be recommended for certain age groups. These are expert matters and are currently the subject of a heated debate, which is being addressed during drug registration.
For sick people, this is one of the busiest topics, because the person you want to vaccinate already has antibodies. This is a very serious scientific question: does it need to be vaccinated? The virus with which a person has become ill can be later and already mutated than that on which the vaccine was based, ”said G. Andriulionis.
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