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In addition to the Cantacuzino Institute, which will be the main storage center for the COVID-19 vaccine, 6 regional centers will be organized in military hospitals, which have the capacity to keep the vaccine at a temperature of minus 80 degrees, he said on Sunday. in the evening the coordinator of the vaccination campaign in Romania, the military doctor Valeriu Gheorghiță. He also said that the teams that will be involved in vaccinating the population will include military medical personnel, doctors and school assistants, as well as medical students.
The Pfizer / BioNTech vaccine must be transported and stored at a temperature of minus 80 degrees. Dr. Valeriu Gheorghiță said, on Sunday night, on Digi 24, that the Cantacuzino Institute and 6 military hospitals in the country will be the centers where the anti-COVID vaccine will be stored, since they have high-capacity freezers, which can ensure storage under the required conditions. . He specified that the manufacturer of this vaccine will ensure the distribution to the airport and that the vaccine lasts for 6 months, kept at minus 80 degrees, but that it must be exhausted as soon as possible, to then allow the supply of new doses.
“These vaccines come in multi-dose doses of 5-10 doses, so we must be sure that we will have so many people for the vaccination, because we have to handle it so that it is wasted as little as possible,” said the military doctor.
He specified that a plan will be made for the vaccination of medical personnel. Likewise, for the rest of the categories vaccination will be carried out by appointment.
When asked who will vaccinate people, given that medical staff are under great pressure, Valeriu Gheorghiță said that there will be vaccination teams that will include school doctors, resident doctors, medical students, under the supervision of a specialist doctor, and the Ministry of Defense provided a situation with the personnel that may be involved in this campaign.
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