“About a thousand vaccines had to be thrown away because they don’t have special refrigerators to store them. “

In addition to the problem of the failure of the thermostat at the San Lorenzo Health Center there is a lack of the necessary material for operation. And the Center denies that vaccines are currently being kept in refrigerators that are not specifically for this. “The vaccines must be between 2 and 6 degrees of temperature. For this, there are special refrigerators, which are also connected to a switch, in which an alarm goes off if the temperature drops or rises. We have one of these, these are the ones with the glass door. But now that a large number of vaccines have arrived to cover both the flu and Covid-19 campaigns, we don’t have enough space and have had to store them in standard refrigerators, the type that people have in their homes, and these “They are not adapted to the characteristics of vaccines,” he laments. In addition, he says that it is for this reason, “that ‘ despite to the temperature is checked both in the morning and in the evening every day, last week about a thousand vaccines, worth about 10,000 euros, had to be thrown away because they were on to be stored in a home refrigerator.Because of this, the response received by the workers is that they get special refrigerators within the cost budget.