We are counting down, there are just a few hours until the vaccines against COVID-19 arrive in Cartagena.
The universal He learned that the 1,260 doses of the pharmaceutical company Pfizer will arrive today after noon at the Rafael Núñez de Cartagena International Airport on a Satena flight.
At the air terminal, the biologicals will be received by the Governor of Bolívar, Vicente Blel, the Mayor of Cartagena, William Dau, and other departmental and district Health authorities.
Unlike Sincelejo and Montería where President Iván Duque and Minister of Health Fernando Ruiz delivered the vaccines, in the city the protocol act will be preceded by a delegate from Minsalud. (You may be interested: Historic! Colombia begins vaccination against COVID)
The Metropolitan Police of Cartagena and Bolívar will accompany the process. From the air terminal the biologicals will be transferred by land to the collection center in the Departmental Health Secretariat, Government of Bolívar.
About 1,500 men will participate in the security caravans made up of various police components such as vehicles, motorcycles and reaction devices.
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The Government of Bolívar explained that the departmental collection center has the best conditions and suitable, ethical, professional personnel to receive vaccines against COVID-19.
In the place there is a cold room with the capacity to store 200 thousand vaccines against the coronavirus. There will also be a deep freezer where the Pfizer doses will be deposited, which require special temperature conditions (-70 degrees Celsius).
The application starts tomorrow
With the arrival of biologics, the immunization process in the department will begin this Thursday, February 18. The first to apply the vaccine will be health personnel from the first line of care for COVID-19 patients.
In Cartagena, these first vaccines will be distributed as follows:
• Hospital Universitario del Caribe: 510
• Estríos S.A.: 90
• General Clinic of the Caribbean: 185
• Health Management San Fernando: 188
• El Bosque Clinic: 65
• Our Clinic (Cartagena Headquarters): 101
• Congregation of Missionary Franciscan Sisters of Mary Help of Christians: 121
The doctor Juan Manuel Montes Farah will be the first person to receive the vaccine in the city. The 69-year-old doctor is one of the officials who has been linked to the HUC for the longest time, and since the pandemic began, he has taken charge of the care of patients in the most critical condition. (Read here: “I am full of optimism”: first Cartagena to be vaccinated against COVID)
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