Twenty-three Ukrainian nurses started their studies at Tallinn Health Care College on Wednesday, beginning the journey to gain professional qualifications in Estonia.
Hospitals across Estonia are only next year starting work on constructing nearly 150 additional isolation wards, planned in anticipation of a surge in Covid and other virus numbers in the winter, despite millions in European Union funds being earmarked for the purpose.
A total of 1,400 doses of the Jynneos monkeypox vaccine arrived at the Health Board's warehouse Thursday which will be used to vaccinate people who have come in close contact with infected persons.
The next wave of COVID-19 to hit Estonia is expected to be less severe, said Peep Talving, medical director and board member at North Estonia Medical Center (PERH). Hospitals themselves are likewise better prepared, although not all isolation facilities have yet finished being built.
Tallinn City Government is seeking up to €39 million in compensation over a cancelled project which would have seen a central hospital built in Tallinn and which would have been funded by European Union money. Two local authorities in western Estonia have also issued complaints over the cut funding to projects in their areas, which together with the hospital, totaled €360.3 million in aid.