Sergo Chikhladze: Epidemic situation is difficult, there is no hope that the system will get better in the near future

The vaccination process has been going on at a fairly high pace in recent days. If it had started a few months ago, we would have vaccinated more than a million people now and we would not have such numbers, - Sergo Chikhladze, a member of the Strategy Builder, told reporters.

"The government should do what we have been talking about for a year and a half. Unfortunately, this will not be possible in a week or two now. We should start taking care of this 15-17 months in advance. These are full mobilization of the hospital sector, mobilization and retraining of health sector personnel, 112, family doctors, village doctors, referral schemes, mobilization of vacant places, etc. This is all that the Ministry of Health should do every day", - Chikhladze said, noting that the absence of transport traffic will affect the vaccination process.

"Due to the high consciousness of our fellow citizens, they are still able to come and get vaccinated. In general, no country speaks about the restriction of public transport in the conditions of the 4th wave. Everyone has learned to manage it and there the issue of restricting transport is not on the agenda at all", - Chikhladze said.

Sergo Chikhladze also spoke about epidemic development and noted that epidemic development in the country is difficult.

"The epidemic situation is difficult, despite the fact that a relatively small number of tests were performed yesterday, the positive rate is high. Unfortunately, there is no hope that the system will get better in the near future.

As for field hospitals, an accurate and specific algorithm has not yet been proposed to the Ministry of Health. We still do not know who we are sending there, how long we make them stay, how the redirection is being done, how this algorithm issue is organized. Of course, a more or less severe patient cannot be admitted there as it requires special equipment and technology. I have an impression that it is about the distribution of patients to be transferred according to their condition, but even here the exact standard and algorithm is unknown", - said Chikhladze.