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According to the most recent official report, cut off at 4:00 pm on February 21, the Ministry of Health reported a total of 39,827 doses of vaccines against covid-19 applied in Colombia, 6,687 of them between Saturday and Sunday. All this in 23 regions.
And although less than a week has passed since the first was applied in Sincelejo, The first complaints about alleged line skipping in the prioritized people and about vaccines that do not appear are already known.
In Santander the case of the plastic surgeon Camilo Reyes, who in social networks boasted of having received one of the first 2,388 destined for this department. Hope begins today. I confess that some tears came out when receiving this first dose, “he wrote on Instagram when he published a photo with the vaccination card, which he later deleted.
According to the doctor, he was immunized at the Foscal clinic. However, the departmental health secretary, Javier Villamizar, assured that Reyes was not from the first line of care and was not prioritized for vaccinations. He added that an investigation will begin to find out how he was able to access the biological and warned that this irregularity can carry heavy penalties.
(Also read: ‘The country has the capacity to vaccinate 100,000 people a day’)
In Risaralda, meanwhile, a scandal was unleashed after the IPS Comfamiliar confirmed that after carrying out the protocol controls by the vaccination area Four doses of the 912 they received were found to be missing in this department.
“This situation of a technical and logistical nature has been being investigated in the company of corporate internal control processes with responsibility and transparency, under the standards and protocols that govern the national vaccination campaign. Notice was given to the health authorities and, in turn, to control bodies for the respective monitoring ”.
Javier Darío Marulanda, Risaralda’s health secretary, affirmed this Monday that after the initial inspections It was confirmed that 188 vaccines of the 192 destined were applied on Saturday in this clinic, Contained in 32 vials (six doses each).
The first hypothesis they study is that these four doses have been lost in the middle of the dilution processes of the vaccines, although they warned the control organizations to investigate in depth and check for substance left in vials or syringes.
(See: AstraZeneca filed with Invima for approval of its vaccine)
It should be remembered that at this time in Colombia Covid-19 vaccines are only being applied to health workers who care for covid-19 patients in intensive and intermediate adult, pediatric and neonatal care; as well as in emergencies; hospitalization in intramural and extramural modality; clinical, public health, National Institute of Health and university laboratories that manipulate and process virus samples; radiology and diagnostic images; respiratory therapy and patient care transport.
In this phase, human talent in health is also vaccinated who has direct contact with specialized health care for symptomatic intramural and extramural respiratory patients, provided that such care involves close and prolonged contact with the patient’s exposed airway; and employees of general services, surveillance, custody, administrative and billing who perform their work in the intensive and intermediate adult, pediatric and neonatal care services of covid-19 and emergency and hospitalization areas.
Likewise, those in charge of food distribution in hospitals are being immunized; the transfer of patients; of laundry, maintenance and transportation; and all those involved in vaccination against covid-19 and those who perform autopsies or necropsies, including the personnel of the National Institute of Legal Medicine and Forensic Sciences.
Technicians and epidemiologists from the territorial entities and the National Institute of Health were also prioritized, who carry out field tracking, active search for cases and take samples that involve contact with suspected and confirmed cases of the virus.If you know of possible irregularities in the midst of the National Vaccination Plan, you can send your complaint to the email [email protected].
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