Fabian Debesa
02/23/2021 1:18 PM
Clarín.com
Society
Updated 02/23/2021 1:22 PM
Almost two months after the formal start of the vaccination plan against Covid-19 in the Province, the level of coverage among health personnel - the first population group designated for inoculation - is
very uneven
.
There are municipalities that only have 23% of public and private health agents vaccinated.
Other districts consulted managed to complete the entire campus with the antidote.
The figure also varies according to
the source: the Ministry of Health say they have
already received the dose of Sputnik V
85% of the total workforce
.
And that "last week it was 100%, but in the last days 18,000 more were registered", in the application "vaccinatepba", the only legal way to get a shift.
In some municipalities governed by the opposition they
report other data
.
In Mar del Plata, out of a total of 19,874 doctors and nurses (including nursing homes), only 4,598 (23%) received the vaccine, according to a survey that
Clarín
had access to
.
And of that batch of people who were injected, "half
received only the first dose
so far," reported in the commune administered by Guillermo Montenegro (JxC).
In La Plata, 60% of the agents had not been summoned to receive the dose even though they had been noted in the official registry, as stated in the commune.
The Ministry of Health did a survey and this was the result: out of 880 workers in the health area of the municipality, 514 have already registered to receive the vaccine.
Of these 514 workers, 60% reported that they were not vaccinated (275 still do not have a shift; 35 already have an assigned shift).
The Secretary of Health of La Plata, Enrique Rifourcat, asked "to know
what are the criteria
established by the Province when defining who to vaccinate first and who next, because they are not clear."
He said that doctors, orderlies from SAME and staff from the primary care rooms are among those waiting in line without a date.
From the Province, meanwhile, they assured that 19,195 health professionals were registered in the Buenos Aires capital and 15,036 were vaccinated.
"
We are at 80%
due to the record of registrations that were in these days. If we had stayed with the registrations of 20 days ago, we would already be at 100%," they remarked.
More cases: in the western suburbs, in Tres de Febrero, 50% of those who were registered were vaccinated.
In San Miguel until this weekend about 1,721 health employees in the municipality passed through the syringe 488 (28%).
Similar situations happen in other parts of the interior.
In Pergamino it was only applied to 28% of the personnel.
And in the west of Buenos Aires there is a
lack of data
.
"It is really shameful that the Health Region II, based in Pehuajó, hides the official data on how many vaccinated there are in that area of the province. The mayor of 9 de Julio did not get that information," denounced the provincial deputy Fernando Rovello (JxC ).
The criteria, priorities and rules of the plan exploded with the
VIP vaccination
scandal
, which led to the resignation of the former Minister of Health of the Nation, Ginés González García.
It was after the journalist Horacio Verbitsky recounted how he agreed to a dose, in an office of the national health portfolio.
Then a list of more than 70 officials, relatives, friends and politicians who benefited from the irregular mechanism would be known.
And it had branches in the Province, with a criminal complaint against the person in charge of the area in Buenos Aires, Daniel Gollán, because there were cases of officials, employees, activists and relatives of officials who were vaccinated without being within the established groups.
On Monday a judicial complaint was made in La Plata, for "poor performance and misappropriation of public funds," which entered the La Plata Criminal Attorney General's Office.
It is that
the vaccine is scarce
.
Buenos Aires has received four shipments of blisters so far.
Access to a shift to get vaccinated in the Province depends on an algorithm.
The mathematical formula, however, cannot solve this equation: more than 2.8 million citizens have registered, but there are only 530,000 doses and 330,000 have already been applied.
“We are not going to respond to media comments from the mayors.
They have natural ways to communicate with us.
And they never asked us missing or similar things
, "they told
Clarín
this Tuesday morning at the Ministry of Health
.
And they added that "it would be necessary to see with what denominator they are calculating these percentages, because we are taking registered personnel on the page or in the app. If they are not registered, we do not take them as the target population, since
the campaign is voluntary
."
The diversity of numbers and percentages to assess the level of application among healthcare employees is as wide and complex as the system itself.
“What happens in provincial hospitals (79) is not the same as in municipal ones (more than 100).
Nor what happens in state and private centers ", they explained to this newspaper.
In the union that groups the professionals, they recognize that “at the provincial level, vaccination is above 80%.
But in municipal primary care wards
it does not reach 70%
”, according to the president of Cicop, Fernando Corsiglia.
"In no way is 100% covered as has been disseminated on social networks and some officials did.
That is missing ”, clarified the union leader.
Among the private companies, the picture is as follows: ACLIBA and FECLIBA, the two entities that group clinics and sanatoriums in the province, revealed this weekend that "between 27 and 30%" of their agents were vaccinated.
They also said that "last week there was a lot of registration" and that "a high number of shifts" were being granted for the next few days.
It coincides with the diagnosis they have in the health union, which groups nurses, technicians and administrators from these centers.
In the Public Health union they told this newspaper that “
in recent days the program has intensified
.
There are more shifts and also a strong campaign –which we support- for affiliates and workers to sign up on the official platform ”.
La Plata. Correspondent
ACE
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