The hospital had to throw away 800 doses of the coronavirus vaccine | the Chronicle

Following a failure of transport logistics, 800 doses of the Sinovac vaccine should have been thrown away this Thursday at the hospital in the city of Canelones, in Uruguay, according to local media Highlighted.

The reason they had to give up the vaccines was that the doses have lost the cold chain, (from -25 ° to -15 °) after having been at room temperature from the first hours of Saturday until Monday.

The box with the doses of Sinopharm laboratory vaccine They arrived at the hospital in the early hours of Saturday by the hospital warden.

“There have been communication failures with the hospital authorities”, sources acknowledged that the Uruguayan media, as well as the existence of errors of the guard which did not refrigerate the newly arrived vaccines.

After the news broke, the National Health Services Administration (ASEE) released a statement in which he said the agency’s southern region leadership had previously requested “officially” at the hospital address a “urgent administrative inquiry to determine whether irregular acts or events have occurred”.

Despite the loss of vaccines, according to eastern media, The Calmette laboratory would have reconstituted the missed doses and people programmed received their doses as planned.

The Pan American Health Organization (PAHO) explains on its official website that “The cold chain is a set of standards and procedures that ensure the correct storage and distribution of vaccines to health services from national to local level”.

Helicopter with Pfizer vaccine crashed in Uruguay

This Thursday morning, a Uruguayan Air Force helicopter was carrying vaccines from the Pfizer laboratory against the coronavirus caught fire after an emergency landing he must have done this when he suffered a mechanical breakdown and all doses were missed.

Diego paints, Health Director of the Uruguayan Department of Rocha, reported that the accident happened this morning, around 2 a.m., in a rural area 30 kilometers from the town of Rocha, at kilometer 184 of Highway 9.

After the forced landing, the helicopter caught fire and the fire lost the two boxes containing the doses with which about 300 elderly people were to be vaccinated 80 years old.