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“Some vaccines require a particularly high degree of cold storage, -20 to -70 degrees. All seats in our warehouse are already taken, so we borrow seats from other municipal refrigerators, including Santara clinics, clinics from Kaunas and everyone else who has the opportunity to store, ”Lina’s adviser to the Minister of Health, Justina Aleksaitė, said on Wednesday.
“Yes, this is a growing problem and we really feel it and see it,” he added.
ESSC has two ultra low temperature freezers that can hold 350,000. vaccine dose.
According to the advisor, if there is a threat that all the refrigeration capacity will be exhausted, the objective will be to buy more freezers.
The ministry, according to the adviser, was considering adjusting vaccine delivery schedules, but this option is not available or is minimal.
The first vaccines will expire in August and are expected to be used by then.
“Because vaccines are a very expensive coin around the world, we have ways to donate them: there was a campaign big enough for the vaccines donated to people in Taiwan and other countries. We will probably apply this practice in the future if there are vaccines that we do not use ourselves, ”said J. Aleksaitė.
We have a great privilege in the European Union that we have received vaccines quickly, we have received enough, a large proportion of those who want to have been vaccinated, but outside the EU it is still a very big problem and people do not really have access to the vaccine . Known as low reliability, “said the minister’s adviser.
According to data from the Department of Statistics on Tuesday, there are currently 749.3 thousand people in Lithuania. unused vaccines.
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