The message received was surprising: this week the vaccination of around a hundred residents of Panevėžys was canceled

In Panevėžys, almost 29 thousand people have been vaccinated with partial or both doses of the vaccine so far. population.

To the portal Delphi Povilas de Panevėžys, who belongs to the age group over 60, submitted his application (his real name is known to the editorial board – aut.p.). He said he and two colleagues were due to be vaccinated with the first doses of Pfize on Thursday.

“One was around 5 pm, the other had to go at 6:20 pm and I had to go at 6:44 pm. The first one was vaccinated, everything was in order, and the one who had it later, when he left work, received a message around 16:15 that the vaccination was canceled. I still hadn’t received it, but on the way home the phone rang and at 4:19 pm I also received a message that my vaccine was being canceled, ”Povilas said.

He was surprised that the message did not contain more information, whether it was an explanation of why the vaccination was being withdrawn or another time for vaccination. It is true that the man called the vaccination center to register for the vaccination the following week.

“I have re-registered now, now they will vaccinate me on the 26th. They were motivated by the fact that they ran out of vaccine,” said Povilas.

The resident of Panevėžys did not hide his surprise that a couple of hours before the vaccination, the vaccination was canceled for both himself and his colleague.

“We came to the conclusion that someone had been vaccinated in their place or had gone to an organization, so there were many more people vaccinated and we ‘stayed on the ice,'” Povilas said.

The outpatient clinic provided an explanation: want mutual understanding

Delphi After contacting the Panevėžys Municipal Polyclinic, the institution’s chief nursing administrator, Aurelija Petronienė, gladly agreed to comment on the situation.

According to her, given the increase in the number of people who decided to get vaccinated and the proportion of people who did not attend the booster vaccination before, it was evaluated that priority should be given to those who have reached the second dose of the vaccine. .

“Due to the lack of vaccines, we decided to cancel a certain number of people who had registered for the first dose in order to make sure that everyone was vaccinated with the second dose. We prefer booster shots. This is because our scale grows barely thousands a week ”, explained the representative of the polyclinic.

According to A. Petronienė, it is difficult to predict the number of people who want to be vaccinated and, in fact, come to be vaccinated.

“It just came to us then. More than 100 people did not come to us last week. Since many of them were the ones who were going to be revaccinated, they contributed to us this week. (…) It so happened that they had to be vaccinated. people who were already late, were both athletes and basketball players, footballers who, for some reason, could not be revaccinated last week, “said the head of the institution, nursing administrator.

A. Petronienė apologized to all the residents of Panevėžys who received this message. There were about 100 of those people, he said.

“The information was so scarce because it is only a message from the system, it is short, coded, with that type of information,” explained the doctor.

He was pleased that most of the people who received such knowledge responded in good faith, they will be vaccinated next week.

“It happens. It happens that we invited 100 more, everyone is happy. We did so this week,” admitted A. Petronienė.

Residents want to get vaccinated, but often choose to go to the garden or orchard.

When asked if the number of people willing to vaccinate is optimistic, the specialist answered affirmatively. However, the outpatient clinic faces the seasonal challenge of good weather, attracting people to nature and without coming to get vaccinated.

“Anyway, that situation is rewarding, especially on weekdays, people are willing to register. However, what we faced and what we suffered a lot in the past week is that we have realized that people have started to prioritize gardens. We need to dedicate additional resources to calling and asking why they are not coming. And they just left, it’s in the garden, it’s in the garden, on the farm, that’s already the case, “said A. Petronienė.

Therefore, as you emphasized, there is a desire for understanding everywhere in these situations.

“We want mutual understanding, and we understand each person and we understand each other.” Sometimes we have to make those decisions, it is not easy, we called in a team, but we had to do it to guarantee revaccination ”, added a representative of the Panevėžys Municipal Polyclinic.