The vaccination of social protection employees will allow boarding schools in the Vitebsk region to return to normal operation
In the current stage, workers of social protection institutions, who work in boarding houses, territorial centers for social services to the population, and care for lonely elderly citizens at home, will primarily receive the coronavirus infection vaccine. This category includes approximately 3,500 people. Their wards, mainly the elderly, are many times more numerous, notes **Vera Astapenko, Deputy Chairperson of the Committee for Labor and Social Protection of the Vitebsk Regional Executive Committee:**
— Our main task is to preserve the life and health of the elderly wards living in stationary social institutions and those served at home. This is almost 19,000 people. Before vaccination, the most effective way to protect the life and health of residents in institutions with round-the-clock stay was the shift method of work, which we were the first in the republic to adopt last year. And then it spread throughout the country. The shift duration ranges from several weeks to a month. Naturally, it is not easy for employees to be separated from their families and homes for such a long time. Vaccination will allow us to exit the isolation regime.
The first visitors to the vaccination room operating at Polyclinic No. 1 in Vitebsk were employees of the city boarding house for the elderly and disabled. Among them is **Irina Baikova:**
— Undoubtedly, vaccination is one of the most effective ways to prevent infectious diseases. Therefore, I decided to get vaccinated without hesitation. Moreover, our health and the health of the elderly people for whom we are responsible depend on it.
Many are also reassured in the correctness of this step by the fact that, according to the results of the first stage of the vaccination campaign, no cases of serious side reactions were registered, notes **the chief physician of the Vitebsk Regional Center for Hygiene, Epidemiology, and Public Health.**and Public Health Vladimir Sinkevich. According to him, the second stage of vaccination should be completed in the shortest possible time. For this purpose, together with social protection bodies, schedules have been drawn up taking into account the shift work of social protection institution employees, and information and explanatory work has been carried out.
— Vaccination is one of the most significant tools of specific protection in the fight against the spread of viral infections. At the same time, to maintain health, it is still necessary to adhere to the entire set of preventive measures: observe the principles of social distancing, mask regime in public places, general hygiene and other rules.
those who work in nursing homes, territorial social service centers, and care for single elderly citizens at home. This category includes approximately 3.5 thousand people. Their wards, mostly elderly people, to a greater extent, notes the deputy chairman of the committee for labor and social protection of the Vitebsk regional executive committee Vera Astapenko: "For us, the main task is to preserve
The life and health of the elderly living in stationary social service facilities, and those receiving care at home. This is almost 19 thousand people. To vaccinate people living in institutions with round-the-clock stays, the most effective way to protect life and health of pensioners was the "vakhovy" method of work, which we switched to last year as the first in the republic. And then it received widespread distribution.
Unquestionably, vaccination is one of the most effective ways to prevent infectious diseases. That's why I decided to get vaccinated without any doubt. The more of this, our health and the health of future generations depend on it, our responsibility for whom we bear. The certainty in the correctness of this step adds to many the fact that, in the end, the first stage of the vaccination campaign is accompanied by serious side effects.