VIP vaccination: nurses said they canceled their shifts and gave the doses to other people

Following the VIP vaccination scandal, a report by Telefe News revealed this Wednesday the complaint of a group of nurses who accuse Balestrini Hospital in La Matanza of giving their doses to other people who are not health professionals.

The first to testify was Tania Gutiérrez, a nurse who had her turn to be vaccinated on January 16. “I signed up as soon as they opened registration. When I introduced myself, the vaccination center was closed and a security guard told me that the hospital had run out of vaccines. A few days later I came back and they told me the same thing, but that when the second doses were applied I could go back and if there were any left they would vaccinate me, ”her story began.

However, some time later, and without being contacted, she approached a health center and learned that it appeared that a dose had been applied. “They told me that in the system, I was already listed as vaccinated, that they would never give me a shift again”, He said.

“It gives me a lot of anguish and helplessness. We worked non-stop, vacations were cut off, many got sick, and someone was given my vaccine. I lost two companions, they were very serious and I don’t want to die ”, she added through tears.

In contrast, Lorena Duete, a laboratory technician, and Noelia Yegros, also a nurse, reported irregularities at the same hospital. They both signed up in December and gave it a ride for January 16. “Two days before they emailed us to cancel it, we never received a response again. Until today, we are waiting, ”they agreed.

Duete and Yegros in the system are listed as unvaccinated people awaiting their first dose. However, they claim that these vaccines were given to other people. “People who work inside the hospital have taken relatives to be vaccinated. It’s an open secret “, they hold.

The three testimonies collected ensure that There are dozens of similar cases. “Speaking to other colleagues who had a shift on the same day and at the same hospital, they told me exactly the same thing had happened to them,” Gutiérrez said.

“There are people who work there who took their uncle, cousin, brother and grandfather to be vaccinated and they marked them as if they were health professionals,” they revealed.

Finally, they stressed that people who do not belong to risk groups but who work in the hospital “were vaccinated before the nurses and doctors themselves”.

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