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Saulius Čaplinskas, director of the Center for Communicable Diseases and AIDS. Photo by Julius Kalinskas (15min.lt / Scanpix).
Saulius Čaplinskas, director of the Center for Communicable Diseases and AIDS (ULAC), was fired for failing to fulfill his duties, Health Minister Aurelijus Veryga said.
Updated by S. Čaplinskas comment and SAM official report.
“He is fired due to a series of violations of labor discipline and failure to fulfill his duties,” said A. Veryga during an hour of government at Seimas on Thursday.
He denied that the removal of S. Čaplinskas could be related to his candidacy for Seimas on the list of the opposition Social Democratic Party.
“A commission was formed to evaluate, and some of those violations were committed long before he participated in the elections or indicated where and with which party he was running,” the minister said.
He reported that S. Čaplinskas is currently unable to work and that his return will be on the last day under ULAC.
Called political agreement
Čaplinskas himself received the news of the dismissal with his illness and affirms that it is a political agreement: I have never been angry with A. Veryga and I am not angry with anyone, but everyone knows that the harassment of the institution was carried out constantly ”.
S. Čaplinskas also did not reject the version that someone else should be appointed in his place.
“It just came to our attention then. Do you think you can’t make an appointment soon? It’s happening everywhere,” S. Čaplinskas said.
He also said that he was currently ill “not a day or two” and had an inability to work.
He is accused of not transmitting the information system
A subsequent report from the Ministry of Health (SAM) claims that S. Čaplinskas is being fired for serious misconduct without transferring the State Information System for Communicable Diseases and their Pathogens (ULSVIS) to another designated manager, the National Center for Public Health (NVSC).
2020 July 31 By order of the Minister of Health, the National Center for Public Health was appointed administrator and administrator of said information system, for which the institution directed by S. Čaplinskas was obliged to transfer it under the established terms and in accordance with the established procedure.
The investigation revealed that the head of ULAC had not complied with the Minister’s order, had not delivered the system, had not cooperated with the NVSC, thus violating the requirements of the legal acts, and had not ensured the performance of other assigned functions. by order of the Minister.
S. Čaplinskas, by failing to transfer the state information system on communicable diseases and their causes, prevented the NVSC from adequately fulfilling its established responsibilities related to disease information management, outbreak investigation and provision of information to other Lithuanian institutions and European, says the ministry.
SAM announces that the current deputy director Kęstutis Krivickas will assume the temporary management of the institution and that the expiration date of S. Čaplinskas’ employment contract is postponed until the end of the temporary incapacity to work.
Antanas Matulas, a parliamentarian from the Lithuanian Christian Democrats-National Union faction, announced in early September that he had filed an application with the Supreme Administrative Court of Lithuania, requesting a suspension on July 31. the validity of the orders adopted by the Minister of Health, which change the manager and manager of this information system. S. Čaplinskas also confirmed that the institution he runs is appealing A. Veryga’s decision to the court.
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