Shortage of family doctors has reached a point where aging doctors are working unto poor health and even death instead of retiring with dignity. Patients need to count on appointments becoming increasingly difficult to get in the future, documentary series "Siin me oleme" revealed.
Hospitals and the healthcare sector in Estonia are near melt-down due to soaring coronavirus numbers, and reaching disaster-level stage where only patients arriving at hospitals whose lives are endangered may be treated. Estonia has among the highest level of coronavirus daily rates in Europe and one of the worst levels of vaccination coverage, while neighboring Latvia, in the same predicament, goes on full lock-down from tomorrow, Thursday.
Kaja Kallas failed to make a single positive proposal for boosting vaccination on the Vikerraadio "Stuudios on peaminister" program, while she did once again ask me to offer mine. Here are five concrete proposals, Jevgeni Ossinovski writes.
Family doctors' anti-coronavirus vaccinations have not gained much traction, despite averaging 150 shots per day in the last two months. This figure nonetheless accounted for less than a tenth of all primary vaccinations.
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