Coronavirus: City says in two months it could complete vaccination if doses arrive

If it were not for the delay in the arrival of doses in the country, city, they say they could cover the Covid-19 vaccination of the entire priority population in two months. This reaches 1.2 million porteños who enter one of the six stages of the campaign designed by the national government last December.

“We have an installed capacity to vaccinate 25,000 people per day. In town, in two months, we could finish the vaccination ”, said the Minister of Health, Fernan Quirós, out of the 1.2 million people who make up the priority groups. “And we could expand that capacity a bit more if needed,” the official added. To achieve this rate, we need vaccines. We have all the capacity to move forward with the vaccination and we do not have the doses.“

As the nation receives batches of different vaccines, it allocates them to provinces based on the percentage of the general population of each district in the national total, instead of estimating the distribution by population to be vaccinated. It also slows down the progress of the vaccination.

This means that if 9% of the country’s elderly live in the city and it concentrates 19% of the total health providers and their workers (around 160,000), the district receives 7% of the vaccines that arrive in the country. each flight according to the population projection by provinces of Indec.

“It ends up being grossly unfair because the allocation should be made by the population at risk, rather than the general population. Thus, an inappropriate dose quota reaches the city, ”observed Quirós.

With the VIP vaccination scandal that involved the Nation’s Ministry of Health, that initial organization, in stages, was lost if the progress of the campaign was to be monitored through the online health portfolio monitor. However, this only depends on the will of each jurisdiction even when the acquisition and distribution of doses are centralized by the national health portfolio.

The city is the first to take this step and go beyond the declaration of the number of vaccinated per day. The Buenos Aires Ministry of Health yesterday presented a monitor with daily updates that will be available from this Wednesday at www.buenosaires.gob.ar/coronavirus/datos to be able to follow the progress of the local vaccination plan.

In addition to showing how many doses are received and applied for each delivery Nation, vaccine type, component (in schedules with more than one dose), priority group organized in six stages depending on the arrival of vaccines (up to now, health workers and over 80) and vaccination or post, also shows how many shifts have been assigned through the 147 and www.buenosaires.gob.ar/coronavirus/vacunacion-covid-19.

Today, as judged by the government of Horacio Rodríguez Larreta, How quickly this data can progress depends only on vaccine availability.

With the opening of teams over 80, 28 out-of-hospital vaccination posts have been set up in clubs, cultural centers, parks, public buildings and civil associations in different neighborhoods. In addition, the 41 vaccinations that depend on the hospitals of Buenos Aires, in addition to the university, national and private hospitals with which agreements have been signed, continue to work to complete requests to health personnel.

In one day, according to data from Buenos Aires, between 11,000 and 12,000 doses are applied, including the 5,000 shifts assigned to those over 80 at the application points of the neighborhoods.

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