Some administrations even expressed surprise at the Ministry’s measure since they do not have doses of Sinovac to immunize the small ones in those municipalities.
After the announcement by the Ministry of Health of the start of vaccination with Sinovac for minors between 3 and 11 years old throughout the country as of this Sunday, October 31, Medellín (with authorization from the Government) confirmed the places where the immunization will begin. The goal is to reach 273,055 children.
From tomorrow the extramural points of the La Divina Eucaristía temple, the Ave María parish in Santa Cruz and the church of San Agustín in Castilla will be enabled.
Likewise, the massive points of the 80 Clinic, ITM Fraternidad, the North and South terminals, the Volleyball Coliseum at the Atanasio Girardot stadium and the Gran Plaza, Florida, San Diego, Oviedo and Unicentro shopping centers will be ready; as well as the Metrosalud network. Most points will operate from 7:00 am to 7:00 pm
On the other hand, La Estrella will activate two vaccination points for children. One of them will be located in the main park of the municipality and will operate from 8:00 am to 8:00 pm The second point will be located in the atrium of the La Tablaza church (on the road that leads to Caldas), from 8:00 am to 4:00 pm
According to La Estrella spokespersons, in this municipality 4,435 doses of Sinovac are destined with which it is expected to attend a minimum of 1,300 children. The recommendation is to carry the vaccination card of the little ones.
In Envigado, the Débora Arango public library and cultural park will be ready from this Sunday at 8:30 am as a vaccination point for the group from 3 to 11 years old. There, health authorities hope to vaccinate between 400 and 700 children a day.
From tuesday, the other five vaccination points scattered around this town may also immunize minors. Currently, Envigado has 10,310 doses of Sinovac.
And in Itagüí they plan to carry out the immunization process for minors during the Halloween Parade. On Tuesday the feasibility of the IPS still being able to vaccinate this population will be analyzed.
According to the Minister of Health Fernando Ruiz, the goal of the national government is to vaccinate 7,100,000 children between 3 and 11 years of age throughout the country with two doses of Sinovac spaced from each other in 28 days.
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Those who are not ready
However, vSeveral municipalities of Antioquia indicated that for now they will not be able to start on this date, as they have not yet received the guidelines or vaccines to make it possible.
For example, in Aburrá, the municipalities of Bello, Barbosa, Copacabana, Girardota and Sabaneta indicated that they are still waiting for the Departmental Health Secretariat to define the guidelines for the application of vaccines in children, as well as the adjustment of methods of progress reports in immunization and authorizing the use of a percentage of Sinovac biologics available in each locality.
Even from the administrations of Barbosa, Copacabana and Girardota they stated that they do not have doses of this vaccine to immunize children.
The COLOMBIAN consulted the Secretary of Health of Antioquia and They explained that they are currently working on the technical and legal aspects that would allow the process to start as soon as possible. However, they did not report a specific date to start the immunization of this stage in the department.
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Announcement from the Ministry
The Ministry of Health and Social Protection announced on the afternoon of Friday, October 29, the opening of the vaccination process in children from 3 to 11 years old from Sunday, October 31.
“This is the most important gift that is given to our children in the country to protect them, to reduce the contagion to their families and to achieve important issues such as safe return to classrooms under all risk prevention conditions”, Expressed the Minister of Health Fernando Ruiz.
Through a video published on social networks, Ruiz pointed out that after obtaining the endorsement of Invima and the evaluation made by experts (which included members of the Colombian Society of Pediatrics, the Colombian Association of Infectology and the Colombian Association of Immunology) It was decided to immunize the minors with two doses of Sinovac spaced 28 days apart.
Ruiz indicated that the objective of the national government is to vaccinate about 7,100,000 children from 3 to 11 years of age throughout the country, for which he invited the territorial health entities, mayors and governors to promote massive vaccination campaigns.
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