EsSalud asks those scheduled for the first dose of COVID vaccine to attend on the specified dates | PERU

The executive president of EsSalud, Mario Carhuapoma, urged people who are scheduled to apply their first coronavirus vaccine to come, as he warned that it is not known if there will be more doses later.

“If you have the programming of your vaccination process, participate, do not miss that opportunity, because later we do not know if there will be more vaccines or not”Said Carhuapoma, who supervised the vaccination carried out at the Real Felipe in the Callao.

He indicated that this is because there is a high demand for COVID-19 vaccines in the world and little supply from the pharmaceutical industry.

“Those who have not been able to get vaccinated, having the schedule of their doses and have not participated, we do not know when it will correspond, because there is not enough quantity of doses”Said the senior official.

He added that “in the world there is a very high demand for vaccines and little supply. This is for an intellectual property issue. It would be excellent if the licenses of these transnationals could be used for other laboratories to produce the doses”.

He argued that there is no conflict of interest as he is a pharmaceutical chemist and at the same time the Ministry of Health is developing a plan for pharmacies to apply vaccines against the coronavirus.

“Not at all, there would be no conflict of interest. It is not that we are going to superimpose the role of nurses. These pharmacies would be a vaccination point. The model is being developed by the Ministry of Health”, He indicated.

It should be remembered that the Sagasti government assured the arrival in Peru of 82.1 million doses of COVID vaccines from August to January, so that the entire population is vaccinated, including those over 12 years of age and that there are 27 million Peruvians who must be immunized until the end of the year.

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On the other hand, the epidemiologist Antonio Quispe, an adviser to the Ministry of Health, indicated that they are prepared for an eventual third wave of the COVID-19.

“More than 300 ICU beds will be made in different regions. There is a per capita index to adjust support for each region”Quispe indicated in Los Olivos.

He argued that the first is to maximize medical personnel and pointed to the human capital vaccinated, trained and distributed in the regions where it is most needed.

Likewise, Quispe ruled out future quarantines, explaining that these measures were part of a strategy presented during the first wave as the only alternative, since there was a lack of knowledge of how the disease was transmitted.

In addition, he highlighted the increase in people vaccinated with two doses against COVID-19, noting that the management increased from 16% to 25%, and confirmed the arrival of the second batch of one million Sinopharm vaccines, as well as a new one. Vaccination to be scheduled.

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