The National Cancer Institute confirmed to EL TEMPS that next Wednesday at 7 am, Rocío Pérez, the head emergency nurse who treats covid-19 patients in this entity, will receive the first vaccine against covid -19 in the country.
This hospital was one of those prioritized by the Mayor of Bogotá among the top seven in the capital in which health workers will be immunized with Pfizer vaccines. In this entity are registered 1,323 professionals and employees who face the front line in the covid-19.
Lina Trujillo, deputy director of medical care and teaching at the National Institute of Cancerology, explained that the first vaccine at this care center will receive the vaccine very early on Wednesday and at 7 am immunization will begin with the dose that will receive Nurse Perez.
The second dose will have to be applied within 28 days, with a new shipment, Trujillo explained.
Those in charge of applying the vaccine will be officials from the central-east network of the Ministry of Health. Specifically, eight groups of vaccinators will carry out the process at this site.
It is worth remembering that 12,562 of the first 50,000 doses that landed in Colombia this Monday will be distributed for two days in seven hospitals in Bogota.
Also, that during the first stage of the National Vaccination Plan is expected to immunize about 350,000 front-line health workers. When this group is completed, about 1.2 million people over the age of 80 will be vaccinated.
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