Georgian Health Ministry: If doctor refuses to vaccinate, ask for written explanation

The Georgian Health Ministry asks the public to request a written explanation if a doctor refuses to vaccinate them and to send the document to the Regulation of Medical and Pharmaceutical Activities’ agency. 

The ministry states that in some ‘suspicious cases’ doctors’ refusal to inoculate patients with the Covid-19 vaccine ‘does not comply with the existing protocol.’ 

The ministry says that in Georgia ‘the process of vaccination is actively underway and the number of vaccinated individuals is growing daily.’ 

An individual denied vaccination can submit a complaint with a doctor’s written explanation both online to the agency’s e-mail regagency@moh.gov.ge and to the Ministry of Health itself. 

The statement reads that the regulation agency will investigate how reasonable the doctor’s decision was and ‘whether the patient's condition was a contraindication to the vaccine.’

Georgia has reported 2,676 new cases of coronavirus and 30 deaths in the last 24 hours. More than 50,000 people remain infected with Covid-19 nationwide. 

A total of 806,681 people are vaccinated in Georgia out of which 238,871 are fully vaccinated which based on the data of Our World in Data amounts to about 5.94 per cent of the country’s population.