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5 times → 6 times → “hit 7 times” with a vaccine vial Use an insulin syringe Announced by the Kyoto hospital
Updated: 2021/03/08 19:23
Priority inoculation of the new coronavirus vaccine for medical professionals has begun in various parts of the Kansai region. Amid concerns about vaccine supply shortages, a Kyoto hospital announced the use of a “syringe that can inject 7 times” instead of the usual 5 times per vial.
Priority inoculation for medical professionals that began March 8 in Kansai. In Osaka prefecture, some 310,000 medical workers want to get vaccinated, but the national allocation is only 70,000. In addition, vaccination for the elderly will begin on April 12, but the amount is also insufficient.
Meanwhile, in Toyonaka City, Osaka Prefecture, health center staff held a meeting on vaccinating the elderly. Initially, the city thought primarily of individual vaccines for family physicians, but since the amount distributed in April was as small as 1% of the city’s elderly, individual vaccines were abandoned. We are considering priority vaccinations for residents of senior facilities. But there are also challenges.
(Director, Taro Matsuoka, Toyonaka City Public Health Center)
“Even if we prioritize the facilities, there is still not enough vaccine. I wonder what kind of people will get the priority vaccination.”
Insufficient supply of vaccines plaguing local governments. Another concern is the “syringe problem.” With a general syringe, the vaccine solution remains and you can only take 5 doses, so you need a special syringe to take 6 doses without wasting the vaccine.
However, at the “Uji Tokushukai Hospital” in Kyoto, where the inoculation began in earnest on March 8, “I successfully took 7 doses from 1 bottle” using a syringe for the treatment of diabetes and insulin.].
The characteristic of this syringe is that the main body and the needle are attached, and there is almost no dead space where the vaccine solution is left. The problem is that this syringe is for subcutaneous injection with a short needle, but for the Japanese who have less subcutaneous fat than Westerners, it is not the long intramuscular injection needle that is standard in the United States. He found that a short needle for In general, subcutaneous injection was sufficient.
At Uji Tokushukai Hospital, 975 people were initially assigned, but this method can inoculate 1,365 people, which is 1.4 times more.
(Director, Atsushi Sueyoshi, Uji Tokushukai Hospital)
“Since the vaccine supply is unstable, I think it would be better to hit 7 people so as not to waste the vaccine as much as possible because surely more people can get vaccinated.”
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