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The department will receive 6,570 doses of the first batch that arrived in the country. They will be kept in Guayabal and sent to the IPS.
With the arrival of the first batch of vaccines to the country, which landed yesterday around 1:00 in the afternoon in Bogotá, the number of doses that the department will receive was confirmed. Anibal Gaviria, Governor, affirmed that, as the National Government had said, Antioquia will have 6,570 of the 50,000 that arrived.
Of that amount, it was announced that 4,599 will be distributed in the capital of Antioquia. The Minister of Health, Fernando Ruiz, declared in Prevention and Action that the first vaccines in Antioquia will be applied this Thursday.
To begin vaccination as soon as possible, the departmental government issued Decree 0763 yesterday, by means of which the Permanent Coordination Table for vaccination against covid-19 was created. It should be remembered that the formulation of said table is ordered by the Ministry of Health. In that space there will be room for the health ministries of Antioquia and Medellín, the EPS, IPS, the public force and the Attorney General’s Office.
Specifically, the governor explained that the 6,570 doses, which will be applied to first-line health personnel, will be distributed by 11 IPS. In Medellín there will be 5 who will. Meanwhile in Bello, Envigado, Sabaneta, Rionegro and La Ceja the IPS will be in charge. Gaviria added that he will take steps to take the vaccines to more remote municipalities, such as Apartadó and Turbo, in Urabá, and Caucasia, in Bajo Cauca. “These municipalities have ICUs, but the management has not been possible,” said the president through social networks.
As for the aforementioned Table, Gaviria pointed out that it will be in charge of defining the Action Plan and monitoring the National Vaccination Plan against Covid 19.
Vaccination points
For its part, Medellín has already defined the five points in which the first 18,000 doses will be put, that is, those that will be applied to health personnel. The main point to preserve vaccines is the Cava de Guayabal. This site will also serve for the conservation of vaccines that are sent to other regions of Antioquia.
The five biological distribution points are the General Hospital, the Pablo Tobón Uribe Hospital, the San Vicente Hospital Foundation, the Las Américas Medical Promoter and the Bolivarian University Clinic. The mayor of Medellín, Daniel Quintero, He was doing a tour of those points yesterday.
Accompanied by the Vice Minister of Public Health and Provision of Services, Luis Alexander Moscoso, and the Secretary of Health of Antioquia, Lina bustamante, the local president said that “we are ready to begin vaccination.”
For his part, Moscoso indicated that Medellín has a capacity to vaccinate between 5,000 and 8,000 people a day. He added that the number will rise as vaccines begin to be applied.
The city, said the mayor, has all the supplies to start the inoculations, that is, it has syringes, diluents and thermal boxes
4,599
Medellín will receive vaccines from the first batch of 50,000 that landed yesterday in the country.
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