Around 70 doctors and nurses from the private sector of the border city of Tijuana took to the streets this Thursday to protest the null response they have had from the authorities to their request to receive the vaccine against covid-19.
Since noon, dozens of people from the health sector, still wearing uniforms, have gathered in the streets of Tijuana to protest against the passivity they denounce by the Baja California Health Secretariat.
An hour after the start of the concentration, they took two lanes of the highway that leads to downtown Tijuana and began their walk demanding that they be provided with the vaccine like the doctors in the public sector.
“We occupy (we need) the vaccine. For example, I was treating a patient with covid and we did not know. Thank God I did not get infected, but I am a vulnerable patient: I had a kidney removed 8 years ago, ”nurse Azucena Quiñones explained to Efe.
Quiñones has spent 30 years dedicating himself to nursing in private clinics and assures that the public sector should be a priority as front-line doctors, because one year after the pandemic they continue to work without rest.
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–“We have come to ask for what we were promised since December, which were vaccines to the entire public and private sectors,” said Gustavo Villareal, an otolaryngologist in Tijuana.
The doctor clarified that since last year they have been promised the vaccine, and despite the constant meetings they have had with the Secretary of Health, Alonso Pérez Rico, they have not been given an exact date to vaccinate them.
Doctors and nurses walked to the San Ysidro International Gate to protest in the middle of the car crossing lanes to the United States, where they stood for almost an hour.
Yessenia Espinoza, president of the College of General Medicine in Tijuana, said that the protest at the International Garita responds to the fact that they seek to be heard in both Mexico and the United States.
“They go to the line and the gringos (Americans) come by helicopter and we appear in national and international news. So that’s where we have to go to be heard, ”said Espinoza.
After their protest in the territorial limits between Mexico and the United States, they returned to the starting point of the concentration.
The Secretariat of Health in Baja California has a registry of 5,234 members of the private health sector personnel.
Everyone must register on the portal of the government agency to access their vaccine.
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