The head of Valga Hospital in South Estonia has been trying to give preferential treatment to members of international ethical and humanitarian service organization Rotary International in administering coronavirus vaccines at the hospital he manages. The Tartu branch of Rotary International, known informally as the Rotary Club refused his approach, which comprised vaccinations sufficient for around a dozen potential individuals, Baltic News Service reports.
Margus Ulst, the hospital's director and a member of the Rotary Club's Tartu chapter himself, made the club the offer, for its senior members, despite a strict national plan for coronavirus vaccination having been established.
Ulst does not deny making the offer, saying that just over 100 doses of the Pfizer/BioNTEch vaccine had arrived at their hospital in an initial delivery. Some front-line healthcare workers had already been inoculated, he said.