Dagbladet has in several cases mentioned that the health trusts has prioritized several in the management for vaccine, while many employees with close patient contact are still unvaccinated.
At the latest in the week before Easter, OUS decided to vaccinate another nine of the hospital’s crisis staff / emergency management in this vaccination round.
This is confirmed by the hospital to Dagbladet.
– The reason is that the hospital is in yellow readiness, and the readiness increases in line with the prognosis for more hospitalized patients. Critical functions in the hospital’s emergency preparedness are to be ensured, the hospital’s communications department writes in an e – mail to Dagbladet.
At the same time, neither the management of the National Institute of Public Health nor the Norwegian Directorate of Health have been vaccinated.
Without patient contact: 43 health leaders vaccinated
OUS: about 10,000 unvaccinated
In the figures for OUS ‘vaccine priorities on 19 February, the percentage who were vaccinated was more than twice as high among employees in administration and management, than it was among health professionals.
An overview of vaccinated firewood OUS today, shows that just over 14,000 of the hospital’s approximately 24,000 employees have now been vaccinated. In other words, about 10,000 employees are still unvaccinated.
Dagbladet is not aware of how many of these have close patient contact.
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– In this vaccine round, which is our third round, priority was given to up to ten vaccines for crisis staff / emergency management. Previously, two in this category have been vaccinated. Nine vaccines were prioritized in this group this time, the press officer at OUS writes in an e-mail to Dagbladet.
A significant proportion of the vaccinations have taken place in the last two weeks, after the specialist health service received doses in addition to those that were initially intended for this group.
– Due to lack of access
But while hospital managers prioritize vaccines for their managers, management in the country’s top corona emergency services must wait patiently for their turn.
Therefore, FHI turned around
To my knowledge, no one in the Norwegian Directorate of Health’s management has received a vaccine. Only personnel in the hospitals and the municipal health service have so far been prioritized in the Norwegian vaccination program, assistant health director Espen Nakstad answers questions from Dagbladet as to whether the management here is a priority.
– We follow the national vaccination program. Currently, the oldest and those with severe underlying disease are at the top of the distribution list. Priority is also given to health personnel in addition to the approved unequal distribution of six districts in Oslo. The fact that no other groups are given priority is probably due to the fact that there is still very limited access to vaccines. It will still take quite a long time before all health personnel in Norway are offered a vaccine, Nakstad continues.
Not prioritized
Many people in risk groups for serious illness and death from Covid-19 disease are still not vaccinated in Norway.
In FHIs fresh weekly report Thursday, it appears that only 32.5 percent of the 939,229 people defined within the risk groups have been vaccinated with the first dose. 15.1 percent have received two doses.
FHI’s overview shows on Thursday that 705,182 people have received the first dose of corona vaccine in Norway. 284,838 Norwegians have received two doses.
Vaccinated top executives
The management at the National Institute of Public Health has not been vaccinated either.
This is confirmed by assistant director of FHI, Gunn Peggy Knudsen, to Dagbladet.
– The management has not been offered a corona vaccine, our business does not fall under the priority criteria for health personnel in the health service. Following a risk assessment of the supply chain for Norway’s access to vaccines, the Ministry decided that employees in the section for vaccine supply should be offered a corona vaccine. A total of 21 employees have received this offer, says Knudsen.
– Will not sneak
Neither Prime Minister Erna Solberg nor Minister of Health Bent Høie have been vaccinated so far.
– I have not been vaccinated and am not in a priority group. We have made the assessment in Norway that we politicians do not stand in front of the queue, says Erna Solberg to Dagbladet.
The Minister of Health, for his part, has previously told NTB that the government “does not want to sneak into the vaccine queue”.
He explained this by saying that in that case the members of the government would have gone ahead of someone who needed the vaccine more.
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