San Pedro Sula.
Tomorrow Saturday arrives at San Pedro Sula the first batch of 48,000 doses of vaccines given by the COVAX / Gavi mechanism, which will be applied to all public, private and health personnel Honduran Institute of Social Security (IHSS) at the national level.
The Deputy Minister of Health, Roberto Cosenza, Explained that, of the 48,000 doses, “more than 36,646 will be for public institutions of the Secretariat of Health, More than 7,000 will be applied to the staff of the Social security and more than 4,000 in the private sector comprising the largest hospitals in San Pedro Sula i Tegucigalpa”.
The official detailed that the region of Health of San Pedro Sula will receive 7,068 doses, 1,911 for the Cortés health region, which will benefit the Port Cortés Area Hospital. The region of Health de Yoro will receive 2,351 doses that will cover the staff of the Hospital del Progrés. “With that we would be benefiting all the hospitals in the Sula Valley,” Cosenza said.
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26,488 cases of covid-19 records San Pedro Sula since the first infection was detected to date. The positivity is 51% and the lethality rate is 3% with 900 deaths. |
“It is important to mention that the most benefited places with the vaccine application will be the Metropolitan of San Pedro Sula i Tegucigalpa“Because it is where the largest population is and the reference hospitals are located,” said the deputy minister.
This week it was reported that the first day of vaccination anticovid a San Pedro Sula exceeded the target, as the goal was to inoculate 830 health workers, but the vaccine was administered to 929 doctors and nurses.
The official explained that the vaccines sent by Covax / Gavi and from the pharmaceutical company AstraZeneca are of viral vector type, so they do not need strict cold chains, as in the case of PfizerIn addition, the application time of the second dose is two to three months after the first.
This first batch of vaccines anticovid is part of the 139,200 doses that Honduras will receive in March. In total, Covax announce a batch of 424,800 doses of the vaccine AstraZeneca for the country to be received between the months of March and May.
training
The head of the health region of Courteous, Dinorah Nolasco, Stated that the staff responsible for applying the vaccine has already started training to better manage the immunization against covid.
“As a departmental we use 11 municipalities, the staff will be trained at the level of health centers to start this vaccination process which is very important for us,” he said. “Our goal is to vaccinate Social Security staff and private establishments that are already registered.
As a Government we are pleased that this vaccine is before Easter“, Nolasc concluded.