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– I think it is not right for them to sneak into the queue. The central authorities have made a decision on the order of vaccination and then it is like the crisis management of the municipality has not done anything right.
Connie Didriksen tells this to Dagbladet, after she reacted to the fact that the mayor and crisis management in the municipality of Færder had received the corona vaccine.
Tønsbergs Blad was the first to mention the case.
– It was the mayor himself who wrote in a local Facebook group that he had received the vaccine. I started to be stunned when the post was suddenly deleted a couple of hours later, but I finally realized it was true. The mayor himself decided to comment on the matter again on Facebook when I asked the group who is on the crisis team. He did not answer.
– It doesn’t help
Didriksen further says that he wonders why crisis management has chosen to prioritize themselves, when they are not the ones most at risk of infection.
– It doesn’t help that the management stay healthy if those in the front line get sick. If you ask me, we should all be supportive, but it seems that leaders only think of themselves. It’s good that they don’t understand.
sorry
Færder Township Mayor Jon Sannes Andersen (Labor Party) admits to Dagbladet that he was wrong to accept the vaccine:
– I got a text message on Wednesday asking if I wanted to get the vaccine. I agreed with that without thinking. In hindsight, I see that the decision was wrong and I apologize. However, I think it is correct that the crisis management of the municipality received the vaccine. Beyond that, I have no further comments and I refer myself to the municipal director.
Residual vaccines
Municipal director Toril Eeg explains to Dagbladet that crisis management has not crept into the queue.
– We have had residual vaccines available after health personnel have been prioritized. These are offered to someone in management after the health personnel have been absent from the vaccination. There are also members of crisis management who have an underlying illness or are critical staff, Eeg says.
She says that there are a total of seven people who have received the vaccines earlier than previously thought, some are prioritized according to the list of the National Institute of Public Health.
– It is my management team, the mayor and the municipal chief who have been vaccinated. In my view, it is better to give them to someone who needs them than to throw them away where there have been “residual doses” after vaccination by healthcare personnel.
Finally, he says that an additional argument for the use of residual doses and critical personnel to give a vaccine to the management was the functioning of the municipality in the escalation situation that has arisen in the municipality of Færder last week.
– Parallel to the management of the pandemic, the municipality will function as normally as possible.
