Emilia vexler
08/14/2021 4:26 PM
Clarín.com
Society
Updated 08/14/2021 5:25 PM
When the vaccines came very sporadically and at 100,000 or 300,000 doses, it was not noticed.
But a little over a month ago, with the string of flights that brought Sinopharm and, on a smaller scale, more shipments from AstraZeneca and Sputnik V,
the problem began to be acute
.
In the most inhabited municipalities of the Province there are cases in which the strategy was to suspend first doses to give only second ones.
All due to the serious lack of vaccinators.
La Matanza is the most graphic case and from where the information that
Clarín
later checked emerged
.
As vaccination with first doses is free, in any vaccination center, in that municipality the decision was made to convert first dose
posts into posts where only second
doses
are applied
.
Why are vaccinators lacking in the Province?
It is not an exclusive problem of this jurisdiction, but it is a hot question this week inside and outside the main district of the country.
Of the more than 600,000 doses of component 2 of Sputnik V that began to be distributed, 231,600 correspond to the province of Buenos Aires.
There are three specific causes of the suspension of the first doses in pursuit of the second.
Two are not new and, even so, they were not taken into account in the handling of the applications.
The first is
the historical lack of nurses
in Buenos Aires territory.
The second is that to the above is added
the delay in the delivery of titles
for those received.
The third is that, as they claim,
"little and untimely" is charged
for long hours of immunization.
And a fourth reason
points directly to politics
: union members denounce that the contracts to be vaccinated are "to finger", and who chooses is La Cámpora.
Less received, and received without title
The lack of nurses is historical in the Province. The few who do
choose to work in the private sector in the city of Buenos Aires
. How much is little? As this newspaper learned, the University of Buenos Aires so far this year barely received 911 graduates. In 2020, the number was even lower: 873. But in 2019, before the pandemic, the number was also very low: 1,057.
"What about the degrees that are not delivered is true. My students do not have their degrees. In addition to the UBA, they did not receive the degrees in other national universities, even less the technical courses dependent on the Province of Buenos Aires.
They are moved by vocation , but they are not recognized.
While the doctors were appointed, my colleagues beg for crusts, "
Paula Baruja, who is a teacher and works at the Eva Perón Hospital in San Martín
, tells
Clarín
.
He says that "with certainty", in the Faculty of La Matanza and in San Martín "they are not handing out degrees." Nor in "any nursing school dependent on the Ministry of Health of the Province of Buenos Aires." From that portfolio they did not answer the query. From the UBA, on the other hand, they clarified that
there are no delays
.
"We have no delay. If they studied nursing in the Province, the titles are handed over by the Province, if they studied in the Faculty of Medicine, we deliver them, hence I do not fully understand the claim. On the other hand, 10 days ago it was signed with the Municipality of La Matanza an agreement so that nursing can be studied in the new educational center there ", they detailed from the Department of Delivery of Degrees.
There are already 2,000 pre-registered for that degree.
Due to the historical lack of nurses, the UBA had to come to the rescue of the vaccination plan.
"Medicine, through the Detectar plan, which is voluntary for 6th year students,
provided City and Nation with 8,000 volunteers
. And many of them are working today on the vaccination plan," they say from the university.
Contracts that are a "scholarship"
"When the pandemic began, many nurses signed up to vaccinate. And we have always been few. Afterwards they stopped doing it because they were badly charged or not charged directly. Others were never called. There could have been many more vaccinating, but La Cámpora got involved. and they choose who can have the contract. Which is actually a scholarship, "
Nelson Ramos, a nurse at the Materno Infantil Germani in La Matanza
, tells
Clarín
.
He signed up "multiple times" and was not called.
He is a union delegate for that hospital.
The vaccinators in the province charge about 45,000 pesos for 30 hours per week, from Monday to Friday.
There are also those who work on weekends.
And there are many less.
They could be called from the private sector to scale the level of vaccination, but it does not happen.
Depending on the case and the hours they do, there are nursing graduates who
can charge up to $ 60,000
.
And the caretakers in Buenos Aires vaccinations can reach $ 35,000.
It is charged per teller, although there is no salary receipt or retirement contributions.
That is why, as Ramos clarifies,
"they are scholarships, not contracts
.
"
"The decrease in vaccinators does not have to do only with the title, because they are not always asked for. What happens is that
they are not charging in a timely manner and the salary amount is low
. Those who entered in May have not received yet. That is why a sector of it goes ", explains to
Clarín
Guillermo Pacagnini, general secretary of the Trade Union Association of Health Professionals (Cicop).
"They are not being paid almost in the province. Neither the vaccinators themselves nor the 'fellows' (those hired in a pandemic). They leave because they do not charge. The nurses who were taken in hospitals to reinforce charge 60 or 65 thousand pesos , but many, such as those who entered in May, have not yet received payment ", adds Baruja.
Private, outside
The lack of nurses, in addition to the shortage of doses, is not the only brake to take off the maximum number of 400,000 daily applications.
Rubén Torres, rector of the Isalud University, believes that Argentina has a robust calendar vaccination system, prior to the pandemic, which "was not used to the full extent of its possibilities" for immunization against Covid.
"In addition, we have
a private vaccination device and a pharmacy device
that has not been used either, as has been done in other countries. That could have allowed an increase in the daily vaccination level," he says.
Why was it wasted?
"Possibly it is due to the lack of interaction, which has always existed, between the public and private sectors," he closes.
Enrollment and compulsory training are also required to practice Nursing.
Everything delayed, like access to vaccines.
ACE
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