800 doses of the vaccine are thrown away at Canelones because they are not refrigerated

As confirmed by official sources on the site Highlighted, the box with the doses arrived at the hospital in the early hours of Saturday. They entered due to the emergency, the only open door to the health center at that time, and they were left until the following Monday, without adequate refrigeration.

“There have been communication failures with hospital authoritiesSources told this site. There were also errors in the emergency room at the hospital, which did not refrigerate the vaccines.

The Calmette laboratory, which receives, prepares and distributes the vaccines, replaced the missed doses and the scheduled people received their doses as planned, they said.