Santo Domingo, DR
Yellow fever vaccine doses run out very easily at the Santo Domingo Health Center, located on Manuel de Jesús Galván Street in the National District, due to high user demand.
As reported by the inoculation manager, Alvin Johnson, the doses are running out due to the hundreds of people who show up at the doors of the center to try to receive them.
“We only placed 10 at most, but from May to here the flow of people has been inexplicable because people have come in greater numbers,” Johnson explained.
The area manager assured that they were welcoming about 400 people a day requiring immunizing serum, when the inoculation capacity is 80 people per day. This causes citizens to start getting angry about not getting their dose.
This is the case of Manuel Figuereo, a 32-year-old young man who spoke to a journalist from Listín Diario about the journey he undertook to try to get vaccinated against the viral infection.
“Look, I have three days at dawn here so that when they want to remember me they can vaccinate me, and let me tell you that those three days were also two flights rescheduled because I can’t leave without that vaccine,” confessed Figuereo, who plans to leave for Guatemala next Saturday.
This increase in the dose request is due to the trips being made to South and Central America, taking into account that these countries require the vaccine in travellers.
