This Wednesday, February 17, the application of the National Vaccination Plan begins: Know the cities where the biological will arrive

The national government has just confirmed that the start of the National Vaccination Plan is brought forward from February 20 to 17, the day Verónica Machado, a healthcare professional who lives in Sincelejo, Sucre, will receive the first biological product against covid-19 applied nationally.

“We wanted to do this in an orderly and thorough manner. We have made a big effort so that the vaccine is distributed throughout the national territory and not just in urban areas or capitals”, Said the Minister of Health and Social Protection, Fernando Ruiz, who confirmed which will be the first cities to launch the process.

In this direction, the official informed that everything will start in the town of SincelejoIt was confirmed that the capital of Sucre has succeeded in establishing an “absolute confluence” between the authorities of the territorial entities (mayor and governor), EPS, IPS and the Ministry of Health. On the same day, he said, the process began in Montería.

“It’s a powerful message, Colombia is a country of territories and not just big capitals”Ruiz celebrated, noting that from there, vaccination continues Thursday in Bogotá, Medellín, Cali, Bucaramanga, Cartagena, Barranquilla and Cundinamarca.

Thus, Riohacha, Cúcuta, Pereira, Armenia, Manizales and Valledupar would start applying organic products on Friday 19; while Pasto, Popayán, Tunja, Neiva, Buenaventura and Ibagué will do the same on the 20th, when the vaccination process has started.

On Sunday, there is a break to resume activities on Monday February 22, when Yopal, Florencia, Arauca, Quibdó, Mocoa and Villavicencio follow one another. The last to start the first stage of vaccinations will be health professionals with primary care in Inírida, San José del Guaviare, Santa Marta, San Andrés and Puerto Carreño.

With him, 31 of the country’s capitals are covered. The only ones who will not receive are: Leticia, the main town of the department of Amazonas, and Mitú, in Vaupés.

It probably is due to the lack of freezers which help maintain the durability of Pfizer organics, which should be stored at temperatures of -70 ° Celsius.

It is precisely on these machines that the national government also spoke, who ensured that the country currently has 22. Bogotá has two, while Antioquia, Arauca, Barranquilla, Boyacá, Caquetá, Cundinamarca, Huila, Magdalena, Meta, Nariño, Santander and Valle del Cauca have one. At the same time, there are eight that are in the warehouses of the Ministry of Health in the free zone of the Colombian capital.

In addition, we knew that In the first two days of this week, four more freezers were dispatched in the departments of Cordoba, Sucre, Bolívar and Risaralda. While next Saturday, February 20, another delivery will be made for Buenaventura and San Andrés.

Finally, there will be expeditions to Atlántico, Caldas, Cauca, Cesar, Norte de Santander, La Guajira, Quindío and Tolima, with which the country would reach 36 freezers to cover practically the entire national territory.

About the vaccination process in general, Minister Ruiz recalled that his portfolio will have prerogatives, how to make recommendations on how to apply the immunization criteria for different services.

Likewise, he said, “we will check the progress made in achieving the immunization targets, because we want the departments and districts to score as balanced as possible., and we could even allocate organic products in case the targets are not met. We obviously want them to move forward, but we don’t want to punish those who have been more effective in the vaccination process ”.

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