Woman immunized with two doses of Moderna in Piedecuesta, Santander

A 20-year-old woman from Santander has revealed a new case of medical negligence at a mass vaccination post in the country. The situation occurred in the afternoon of Wednesday August 11, when the young woman approached the vaccination post of Piedecuesta, where They immunized her with two doses of Moderna, the vaccine of which was to be a single dose.

The young woman recounted what happened to the regional media in Vanguardia and explained that, despite the fact that the vaccination of young people between the ages of 20 and 24 had started until this Saturday, she approached the vaccination post of mass with a friend, since the headquarters opened an immunization day for people over 20 years old.

He explained that when he left his job, he arrived at the vaccination site and filled out the admission form, after which he sat down to wait his turn. What he pointed out to the regional media was that the people who arrived were divided into groups of five and his was the last group waiting to be vaccinated.

The young woman revealed that there were white and green chairs, in the first they placed those who were waiting their turn and in the green those already vaccinated. One of the two local nurses called her and gave her her Mi Vacuna card, already filled out, and they immediately applied a dose of Moderna.

“I arrived and there were two nurses. I showed my ID card and the card, then the nurse took the vaccine, gave it to me and told me to go to the green chairsThe woman told regional media.

Even if it was already located in the chairs of people who had already received the vaccine, The young woman said it was not two minutes after being immunized for the first time, when the other nurse also called her. “I thought they were going to ask me if I was dizzy, if I felt bad, because in the green chairs we were the ones who had already vaccinated us,” he explained.

However, what she expected did not happen, it turned out that this nurse asked her for information and made her sign a document, which the previous illness did not do. “The first nurse did not ask me for the same data, I filled in my data with the second nurse,” explained the 20-year-old from Santander.

Then the nurse made her sit down and walked to the refrigerator to get a new vaccine, despite the young woman’s confusion, the nurse told her that she should give her another dose. “When the second nurse received the other vaccine I said to her: ‘wait: are these two vaccines?’, And she replied that there were two. Before that, she had already asked and reviewed my card. She put the vaccine under the other, told me to take acetaminophen, and told me I could go out now. “

Santander’s wife explained that she trusted the nurse and believed what she was applying was some kind of booster for the vaccine. As she left the scene, the woman started talking with her friend and others, there she learned that she had only received two doses of the same biologic.

“I went home, I took a paracetamol as the nurse told me, at night I felt a slight dizziness, at dawn very hot and for the moment only my arm hurts The woman said and the media released some pictures of the woman. arms, where you can clearly see the two marks left by the two doses.

She pointed out that the next day the vaccination post contacted her, as they realized her mistakeTherefore, they called her to check on her health. In addition, they informed you that due to the error, they will be monitoring you all the time.

The regional media contacted the Secretariat of Health of Piedecuesta and of the entity they explained that “when such a case occurs, the directive says that the IPS must inform the Secretariat as they must monitor this person who has been double vaccinated, and whether the person has been vaccinated. twice, they have to file a complaint because their health is affected ”.

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