Vaccination: Fernán Quirós apologized again and demanded that Pami have the centers in good condition

After yesterday’s scandal over overcrowding of elderly people outside Luna Park, waiting to be vaccinated against coronavirus, the Minister of Health, Fernán Quiros, he reiterated the apologies of those affected. He also raised the possibility that the PAMI participates in the process with its affiliates. “The effectors who decide to vaccinate must be vaccinated under the appropriate conditions and with a population denominator that they will take care of. We have organized technical meetings with this social work to work in the places and in the register ”.

During his usual press conference, the head of the Buenos Aires health portfolio again asked for forgiveness because the elderly “have lived through an uncomfortable and painful period”. In an attempt to reverse the situation, the City has made new vaccination centers available and some shifts have been reassigned from Luna Park to other destinations. “Yesterday, the environment for the early arrival or the accompaniments failed, this number of people was not well calculated and this agglomeration occurred. The center was well organized, but the capacity was exceeded both in the waiting places outside, around the vaccination points and in previous waits “, added the Under-Secretary for Primary Care, Gabriel Battistella, in La Red radio.

Quirós did not miss the opportunity to insist that the distribution of vaccines be oriented according to the proportion of specific groups considered for the first vaccine applications and not according to the population density in general. “While it is true that the City received a small quota higher than the rest of the districts, that does not solve anything because of the proportion of doctors and specific groups that there are. The secret is to give all citizens the same possibility of access, ”said the official.

From the city, they said there were 204,000 adults over the age of eighty. Until last week, 40,000 doses had been applied and 71,000 registered people were waiting their turn. Battistella explained that out of those 71,000 we will now vaccinate 21,000. “We still have the 50,000 that we registered and part of those that are covered by social security, which are also around 50,000”, a- he added.

From today, the City is also starting to vaccinate teachers in Buenos Aires. It was only on the first day of registration that 25,000 teachers and school directors registered. In a first batch, 16,000 doses of the Chinese vaccine can be applied Sinopharm, Quirós said this morning. Much of this batch of vaccines used for those under 60 years of age has been injected into health workers in this age group.

X-ray of the pandemic in the city

Total number of cases: 237,927

Registrations: 207995

Deaths: 6,936

Summary of the last 24 hours: 858 new infected and 21 deaths

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