“1303 volunteers signed up for our initiative on Sunday morning. Including 561 doctors and 58 pediatricians. Dozens more report directly to the regional coordinators thanks to our call, “said the initiative, which is mainly supported by outpatient dentists.
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“We would like to thank everyone from the ranks of doctors, paramedics, non-medical health professions, pharmacists and other IT assistants,” the initiative praised not only the health professionals.
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There are about 6,800 general practitioners for adults and 4,800 for children and adolescents in the Czech Republic. So far, only a part of them has been involved in vaccination. There are about 7,500 dentists, about 1,600 gynecologists and about 12,700 other outpatient specialists.
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The initiators of the call handed over the list of registered volunteers to the Central Steering Staff and the Office of the Government of the Czech Republic, as announced today on social networks. “At the moment, it depends on the regions how flexible they will be and how they will make the most efficient use of selfless volunteer offers,” they added. An interactive map of volunteers who offered assistance in arranging vaccinations was also created. On the website lekaripomahajicesku.cz according to the initiative’s coordination team, a map will be published in the coming hours.
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The aim of the initiative is to supplement the capacity of vaccination centers with the possibility to get vaccinated at a designated time in any surgery of the participating doctor. Another option for doctors is to help directly at the hospital’s vaccination center. The call was previously supported by the nominated Prime Minister Petr Fiala (ODS) and the resigned Prime Minister Andrej Babiš (YES). He called on practitioners to be involved in vaccination and in hospital assistance doctor in the ambulances, among others, the mayor of Prague Zdeněk Hřib (Pirates).
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Interest in vaccinations has been growing recently. According to the data platform Great 6.51 million people in the Czech Republic are vaccinated with at least one dose of the vaccine, which is about 70.3 percent of the population. So far, medics have given the strengthening third dose of the vaccine serum to 1.11 million people, ie almost 12 percent of Czechs. According to data So far, 1.115 million Czechs have received a booster vaccine from the Ministry of Health. So far, the most booster doses have been vaccinated on Friday, December 3, when 75,031 people were vaccinated with the third dose of the vaccine.
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