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Rodrigo Gajardo | UNO Agency
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Three officials from critical units of the Las Higueras hospital in Talcahuano were the first to receive the Pfizer-BioNTech vaccine against the coronavirus in the Bío Bío. This, after the arrival of 2,050 doses to the region, which began to be distributed in 13 public and private healthcare facilities.
On the day that Chile registered the highest number of infections in five months, with 2,520 new people infected by the pandemic, leaving only 258 ventilators nationwide, the vaccination of critical units in hospitals began in the Bío Bío region and clinics in the three provinces.
The arrival of the 2,050 doses was at the Carriel Sur airport, in a procedure led by the Undersecretary of Health, Paula Daza, who expressed concern about the advance of the pandemic, but was optimistic about the benefit that the beginning of the inoculation brings. .
The first to be inoculated at the Las Higueras Hospital in Talcahuano were the ICU internist, Sara Delgado, the nurse Carolina Campos and the doctor María Soledad Oliveros, who highlighted not only the protection given by the Pfizer BioNTech vaccine but also the incentive to continue working.
For her part, Sara Delgado recalled the conditions in which they have worked since the beginning of the pandemic.
The first batch of vaccines was divided into three devices that departed from the Carabineros Aeropolicial Section -by helicopter- to Curanilahue and Los Angeles, as well as two by land to Concepción and the port commune, detailed the Minister of Health, Héctor Muñoz.
In total, there are 13 healthcare centers that will vaccinate their ICU and ICU staff in this first stage; not only public hospitals but also private clinics such as the German Sanatorium, the Southern Clinic Hospital and the Andes Clinic.
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