The Posadas beyond the scandal: how is the plan to immunize staff and how many vaccines does it have

02/21/2021 19:07

• Clarín.com

• Society

Updated 02/21/2021 19:07

The

Posadas Hospital

was in the eye of the storm after

Horacio Verbitsky

told that, prior to being summoned to the Ministry of Health to apply Sputnik V earlier than his due, he was going to go

to El's health center

without a shift.

Palomar by indication of the now former minister Ginés González García.

After the scandal, the director of said medical institution, which depends on the national government, asked that the entire vaccination process and the "infinite effort" that the medical team has been making should not be stained.

Clarín

contacted Posadas to find out what their vaccination plan is like.

As detailed from the Posadas, they

are vaccinating "hospital personnel" and without a shift

.

“An

internal schedule was

put together

according to the degree of contact with the virus, from greater exposure to less.

They talk to each head of service and groups of five people are assembled who go down to the vaccination center to access each five-vaccination scheme, ”they explained to this newspaper.

An average of

"300 to 350 people per day"

is immunized

.

"The vaccination center is in a building outside the hospital, it works from 8 a.m. to 4 p.m. There are five clinics with personnel assigned solely to that task," added sources from the health center.

President Alberto Fernández

was vaccinated there

. 

Also Foreign Minister Felipe Solá, although he explained that he did so on the recommendation of his medical team and his imminent trip to Mexico with Fernández. 

For this week, the hospital expects to finish vaccinating the total staff with the first dose: there

are 5,200

.

They already gave it to 80%.

Meanwhile, 30% received the second dose.

President Alberto Fernández was vaccinated at the Posadas hospital, an institution that depends on the Ministry of Health, and was splattered by the vip vaccine scandal.

Photo: Presidency of the Nation

They claim that when they complete the first stage of immunization,

they will have 1,500 first doses left over

.

The destination will be over 70 years of the Province, who

will access them in turn

, as confirmed from the Posadas.

The hospital plans to share a statement with the details of the vaccinations so far, with the intention of making

the situation transparent indoors.

Regarding the doses used in the Ministry of Health for the "VIP vaccinated", from the hospital they assured that 

they were not part of the batch

they had received to immunize health personnel. 

Through Twitter, Alberto Maceira, director of the Posadas, said: "This episode cannot dirty or stain an entire vaccination process and a collective effort between health personnel and the entire population."

"Since the beginning of the pandemic, those of us who make up the immense team of the Posadas Hospital made an infinite effort to recondition the hospital, add beds, train ourselves and

provide the response that society needed," he

said.

He also said that the Posadas is "the hospital in the country that has applied the most doses of vaccines" and that they immunize

a person "every minute and a half."

On the scandal, he remarked: “There is no time to lose.

What is wrong must be corrected and quickly

.

This was done.

What is wrong can be corrected with what is right, without hesitation or speculation.

Only the one who does is wrong.

Let's continue making this vaccination campaign a historic event for the health of our population ”.

SC

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