Coronavirus: Nurse who gave an empty injection in Villavicencio – Health

“Every coin has two sides and must be seen the same before judging”he says on the phone. She is heartbroken. A video shows her as a villain injecting an empty syringe into a grandfather. Another case, one more in the country. And he admits that he never thought it would happen to her.

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It is the nursing assistant who is going viral because of the video in a Villavicencio clinic that presents the same scene of what happened in Floridablanca and Medellín: empty syringes in left arms and new tips to apply, now, the longed-for vaccines.

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She confesses that she managed to joke with her colleagues on the subject. He had already seen what had happened with his colleagues in other cities. She knew she was very cautious and that is why she never thought what would happen to her.

He prefers not to say his name. He is 25 years old and has put his chest to the pandemic in recent months. It has more than 200 vaccines applied in a week and zero incidents, until yesterday.

(Of interest: This will be the vaccination by peak and ID for people over 80 in Bogotá).

Before noon I was on a new vaccination day when it was the turn of Don Emiliano Parrado, an 83-year-old adult, who arrived with his granddaughter. “The young woman asked me if I could record and I said yes, I always even try to make patients laugh and look good in the photos”, He says.

He proceeded to explain the procedure with the Sinovac vaccine that he would apply, told him the care he should maintain and gave him the appointment for the second dose on April 12.

“You know when people are recording and I don’t get mad because I would do the same. I took the cotton ball and put the syringe in it, but when I did, I realized that I forgot to enter the dose, ”he recalls.

Everything was in a video that according to her also captures the part in which He explains the mistake to the granddaughter, makes excuses for her, and asks if she can repeat the procedure. “I confessed to him that I didn’t know what I was thinking when I put the needle in and for him to forgive me. All that should have remained in the video but only the first part was published, ”he assures.

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“It was my fault. I really don’t know what happened to me. I was able to keep quiet, but they taught me that you have to tell the truth even if the whole world comes to you, and that’s why I told my granddaughter about my mistake. My duty was to do it so that the man did not leave without a dose, a life was at stake, “he says.

The nursing assistant also states that Don Emiliano’s granddaughter accepted the apology and allowed the new inoculation.

At that time the issue did not pass to greater. However, in the afternoon, when she was already waiting for the bus to go home, the clinic called her to come back. The video was already on social networks and this woman was not downgraded as a criminal.

“I have seen the comments and they are horrible. They are investigating me and with my work I support my children. I am a simple worker. A nursing assistant who loves what she does. And I can only say that a mistake is made by anyone”, He asserts.

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Again, she apologizes to Don Emiliano “because I would not like them to make a mistake with a vaccine either” and concludes by saying that as a health worker she understands the importance and seriousness of the process and that is why she always tries to do her best in their work, “but again we end up mistreated and everyone forgets how good we have done.”

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