‘Wait for us’: López Obrador ruled out special COVID-19 vaccination program for private doctors

President Andrés Manuel López Obrador pointed out that the federal government has already defined a vaccination strategy against COVID-19 so he asked the private doctors who need to be vaccinated, “Waiting for us”.

During his traditional morning conference at the National Palace, the president insisted that specialists suggested starting to vaccinate medical staff working in COVID hospitals, and then the elderly. That is why – he said – the request of private doctors is not rejected, but they will have to wait until it is their age.

“(…) The first thing was to take care of the doctors, nurses and health workers who from the start have been in covid hospitals … because at the beginning, when we didn’t have the vaccine, unfortunately some of these doctors and nurses lost their lives. And we are almost done vaccinating them all in second dose “, he stressed.

<< Secondly, adults over 60 years of age and over, because it has been supported in addition to solidarity, humanism, that since it is a population more vulnerable to the pandemic due to of age, it was managed that if we vaccinated all the elderly, mortality was reduced from covid by up to 80%. So the most important thing is to save lives, that's the essence of human rights ”he insisted.

Asked about the request of private doctors to be vaccinated, and who this morning moved their demonstrations in front of the national palace, the Mexican president assured that their claims are not rejected, but that they will have to wait until their age is due.

“I understand the doctors’ request, we are not throwing it in the trash, but we already have a strategy that will help us all”, he declared and specified that “the vaccine is applied universally (…) it does not matter. that the doctors are in private hospitals “, he stressed.

“Wait for us, until it touches us all”, he stressed.

López Obrador insisted that vaccination is universal and free, but that it is applied by a principle of equality, for which he stressed that there is no preference in terms of vaccination.

“(…) Also to be very clear, so that there is no manipulation, the vaccine is applied universally, it does not matter that the doctors are in private hospitals or that the teachers give lessons. in private schools. It’s for everyone, it’s a plan that applies the principle of equality “, he asserted.

He reiterated that everyone should wait their turn as established by the National Vaccination Plan, because “not even the president who gave him COVID and who could be vaccinated under any circumstances.

“The example of the Secretary of the Navy (Admiral José Rafael Ojeda Durán), still prostrate, recovering, who could have been vaccinated; the example of the Secretary of National Defense (General Luis Cresencio Sandoval) who could have been vaccinated; the example of the Secretary of Health (Jorge Alcocer) who could have been vaccinated “, he stressed.

The President pointed out that once the vaccination of the elderly is completed, the next group will be education workers, to whom the biological of CanSinobecause it is a single dose. At the by -He said- Mexicans between 50 and 59 will be vaccinated.

Private doctors say they have been discriminated against because they were not included in the national COVID-19 vaccination plan

This morning, doctors from the private sector arrived at the gates of the National Palace – home of López Obrador – to demand that they be administered the COVID-19 vaccine.

They ensured that they were discriminated against by not being part of the immunization plan that prioritized public sector health workers and stressed that as doctors they are also at risk of becoming infected because that they care for people with COVID-19.

That is why they demanded an audience with President López Obrador so as not to continue to be relegated.

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