This morning of Saturday, December 26, the second batch of 42,900 doses of the Covid-19 vaccine produced by Pfizer-BioNTech.
From Belgium, 34,125 vaccines will be applied to health sector personnel in Mexico City, and 8,775 in Monterrey, Nuevo León.
From the capital airport, Zoé Robledo, CEO of Mexican Institute of Social Security (IMSS)He said that the federal government, by presidential instruction, is working in a coordinated and joint manner in the staging of vaccination to achieve universality in its application.
It will be up to the health authorities to identify the health personnel to be vaccinated, who in the first stage of vaccination is the initial target population, he said.
It is strategic to protect those who have protected us, and continue to protect us, throughout this year. That is why we are so pleased that the Social Security health personnel are, along with all the other institutions, in this first stage, in the proportion that corresponds to what has been treated in the almost 1,000 hospitals that treat Covid “.
He explained that the medical personnel to be vaccinated are selected from the teams that are directly treating patients with Covid-19 in all areas, including emergencies.
There are ten different categories, he reiterated; “We always imagine health personnel with a cap or gown, and that they are exclusively doctors and physicians, nurses and nurses, but there are also inhalotherapists, food technicians, laboratory workers, chemists, ambulance drivers, orderlies, assistants, in short”, said.
“Our staff is very happy, very optimistic, very enthusiastic, and very recognized for having been selected as the first to be vaccinated. There is full security about the vaccine and, in that sense, protecting those who have protected us is strategic and essential ‘ ‘, said.
In its turn, Miriam Veras Godoy, General Director of the National Center for Child and Adolescent Health, recalled that a total of 34.4 million doses of the vaccine produced by Pfizer-BioNTech will arrive in Mexico.
He was also present, in the second act of reception of doses organized by the Ministry of Foreign Relations (SRE), Victor Hugo Borja, Director of Medical Benefits of the IMSS.
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