Of the 15 thousand health workers, only 5,000 received the Anti vaccine. - CO VID in Kosovo

Health Ministry spokesman Faik Hoti claims there are health professionals who have been reluctant to be vaccinated, but there are others who have antibodies as they have already passed COVID-19.

Their “around 5,000 are from health personnel. There are those who have taken it as if they're showing the numbers, others who have passed COVID-19 and think they've still got antibodies and they think they're vaccinated in the meantime, as if there's some who've certainly hesitated. But the MSh's strong recommendation is that all health personnel be vaccinated to ensure active immunity against the” virus, the MS spokesman said in response.

Not a good example for Kosovo citizens is considered the reluctance of doctors to vaccinate.

Global health policy research specialist Hannah Xhemajli says the medical staff has no reason not to be vaccinated.

Inoculation is the way to get out of isolation and get rid of the COVID-19 pandemic.

I'm the most surprised medical trust staff I'm trying to reason on in a way, but I don't really see such a reaction at all. Give a bad example to the population that has been overwhelmed by pandemic 13 months, a situation they haven't fully understood and didn't really know what pandemic is. Seeing these people take care of them by not vaccinating is an example I hadn't followed. They're not right and they're not good enough because they're protesting about this I don't think it's an example to follow. The only way for us to get out of these isolations from total or partial closures is inoculation, whatever method it has just slowed down, and a process has to be extended, which other states have started by December”, Xhemajli stressed for Kosovas.

Surprised by the doctors' reluctance to vaccinate, the chairman of the Kosovo Medical Oda, Pleat Sejdiu, also said.

According to him, reasons for failing to vaccinate medical staff have been the raised dilemmas that would have to provide the National Institute of Public Health.

We've expected a much larger number to say the right because according to our calculations somewhere in Kosovo are about 15 thousand to 16 thousand health personnel, we're also waiting for the private sector to be vaccinated. And there are 4 grand and 400 doctors, and we've expected at least 70-75% to be vaccinated, given that some of them have actually spent the last three months of COVID, and maybe another phase for their vaccine should be expected. And it's been a surprise to us that only about 2,000 and 200 doctors so 50 %s were vaccinated. The reasons for hesitation were the clarification of two issues in which the institute had to be clarified and we had the institute explain to the public as well because it would be useful for them to see what the optimum time is after the negativeization of those who had been positive with COVID to deal with vaccines and how closely the subject of antibodies is related to the need for vaccine and that has never been clarified. And these two issues have been raised by many of our colleagues because they need to and do not need because we have antibodies and those antibodies we get from vaccines. But we are a little disappointed, however, because it is not a good message for the population”, Sejdiu stressed for the KP.

But the director of the Infectious Clinic, Izet Sadiku, has said that about 100 doctors and nurses of this clinic have already received the first dose of AstraZeneca vaccine.

According to him, those who have been vaccinated have not had serious complications except those that produce any other vaccine.

“Although infected 90 %s have passed the disease and had antibodies so they've been vaccinated for the first reason is the proposal that those who went through to get a dose and that the vaccine is very necessary to be taken and that we have more than 100 people that we've received. We have been vaccinated and not all complications have been common, there has been a serious case of complications”, Sadiku stressed.

In addition to medical staff vaccinated in Kosovo, around 500 doctors from Kosovo were vaccinated in late March COVID-19 in Kukes, Albania, with the AstraZeneca vaccine.

While, on 28 March in Kosovo, the first container of 24 thousand doses of AstraZeneca vaccine arrived, which were donated by COVAX. Prioritys at this first phase of vaccination had health personnel and elderly people. And now it's been nearly a month since the distribution of these vaccines started.