Correspondent La Plata
02/18/2021 18:53
Clarín.com
Society
Updated 02/18/2021 6:53 PM
With some delays and centers that were not given enough doses, the
"massive campaign"
to vaccinate people over 70 years old announced by the government of the Province began.
In the positions enabled since this Thursday by the authorities in the region of the Buenos Aires capital, there were a minority of adults who could access the inoculation, according to
Clarín
in some of the new places assigned for the sanitary operation.
The program continued with a somewhat more systematic rhythm to complete the application among health personnel –which had priority in the schedule- and for teachers who are members of risk groups for
pre-existing diseases.
Axel Kicillof announced this Wednesday that 115,000 shifts had been assigned for older adults until next Sunday.
For that, more than 360 places had been arranged so that those enrolled could come to receive their dose.
It includes the 70 provincial hospitals, the 90 municipal hospitals, and 165 school buildings.
Also headquarters of IOMA, Pami and some delegations of unions close to Kirchenrismo such as Sadop (private teachers) and Suteba (state).
Vaccination in the Province began this Thursday.
Photo: Mauricio Nievas
In the Buenos Aires capital, they set up two primary schools
, a secondary school and a kindergarten.
They will provide the facilities until February 28, because one day later it must be clear for the restart of classes after almost a year without face-to-face academic activity.
In March, they will be located in places arranged by the municipalities or in university spaces, they explained.
"We have everything prepared but not enough doses arrived," said an agent from one of the educational establishments.
That is why they had not summoned the grandparents.
They only kept the plan to apply to facility doctors and nurses.
Only in the Buenos Aires capital there would be 50 thousand people in the age range over 60 years who would be in a position to receive the medication.
Just after noon, in another of the school sites they began with the elderly who received the notification after signing up on the province's website and in the application "vaccinatepba.gob.ar".
"We do not call many because we do not have enough doses," they admitted at the door of the school.
The projection of the Ministry of Health is that they should achieve the application of an average of 160 injections per day in each of the vaccinations.
For this, the Buenos Aires government has a remnant of the Spuntni V party that arrived last week (135 thousand corresponded to this jurisdiction);
and these days 235 thousand of the consignment that arrived in the country from India, with a formula from the Astra - Zeneca laboratory, would be distributed.
Vaccination in Buenos Aires.
Photo: Mauricio Nievas.
“In this way, 100% of the health personnel will be covered, all educators with risk factors and will advance with those over 70 years of age.
The inoculation of other teachers will also begin and in some districts there will be a test for security forces personnel, ”officials said at a press conference.
Today 2.5 million Buenos Aires residents had registered on the list.
40% of those listed are over 60 years old.
It means that there will be many interested in having covid 19 antibodies who will have to wait for the arrival of more vaccines.
Those that Buenos Aires received are not enough for all of them.
“Some adjustments to the logistics are missing.
The Province is very extensive and complex.
You cannot get everywhere immediately ”, health sources admitted to Clarín.
However, for the Buenos Aires Minister of Health, Daniel Gollán, "the vaccination campaign is a success."
