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On Thursday morning, the Government communicated the names and occupations of the first five people to be vaccinated against covid-19 in the country.
The first was Zulema Riquelme, a 46-year-old TENS who at 11:42 hours went down in history when she received the expected first dose of immunization, in front of television cameras and the watchful eye of President Sebastián Piñera and the Minister of Health, Enrique Paris.
Riquelme works in the Sótero del Río Hospital in Puente Alto 26 years ago. His two sisters, who live in Spain, contracted the virus.
Through a government document, Riquelme He claimed to have felt discrimination from his neighbors for being a health worker, since they believed that she could infect them.
As he commented, wants to get vaccinated “for her and especially for others”. He feels that “it is a duty” and that the first line of health “must be fine to serve the rest of the population.
And the rest?
The second to receive the vaccine was Juan Emilio Cornejo, who works as a doctor at the UCI de la Posta Central and also as a thanatologist in the Legal Medical Service.
He is married and the father of a child of 1 year and 8 months. Their parents are older adults and have underlying pathologies, so their greatest fear is getting infected and making them sick.
The third person to receive the first dose was Adriana Arias, 37-year-old supervising nurse at the Metropolitan Hospital.
As commented from the Minsal, the professional decided to quit his job at Clínica Indisa in order to help Chile in this pandemic from the public system.
She has been married for six years and has two 5-year-old twin children.
The fourth on the list was Óscar Antonio Vera, 35-year-old kinesiological coordinator at Hospital Metropolitano.
The man specializes in management of mechanical respiration and patient recovery post covid, so you are constantly exposed to the virus when treating intubated patients.
“He is single, he lives alone, but his greatest pain is not being able to see his family as a result of the pandemic. Parents, brothers, nephews and grandparents, they are all proud of the work they do in the hospital ”, they indicated from Minsal.
Last on the list was Ruth Patricia Herrera Bravo, a 52-year-old auxiliary who is in charge of cleaning and disinfecting each of the boxes with patients in the ICU of the Metropolitan Hospital.
According to figures from the venue, serves at least 12 people daily, all connected to mechanical respiration.
Previously worked at the Dávila and Las Condes clinics, but decided to arrive at the Metropolitan Hospital by vocation.
“He lives with his partner, who works as a driver, and his three pets who are like his children. Together with her mother they are very attached and she has not been able to see her since March “, reported from the Minsal.
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