Llegan miles of additional vacancies against the COVID-19

Secretary of the Salud Department, MD Carlos Mellado, informs hoy that there will be a total of 6,000 additional vacancies per week and in addition there are various cadence of pharmacies in the evacuation process against the COVID-19, and exhort the more than 65 year olds to hope to be contacted to receive their turn .

Following the announcement of the Secretary, The pharmaceutical companies Walgreens, CVS, Walmart, Sam’s and Amigo will be taking part in the evacuation and will continue to hope for the next few weeks. In addition, while there are more vacancies available, there will be a total of 30 community pharmacies.

“We will continue with the effort to evacuate patients over 65 years of age. Y lo hemos logrado. We are now in a very good situation for Puerto Rico. “All the days are better, and I’m sorry I’m fine with what I’m doing,” Mellado said.

As of this day, there are 101,967 young adults aged 65, 38,561 masters, 2,939 people, 1,926 people with intellectual disabilities. A total of 267,050 primary doses were added and 114,307 second doses were added.

Explained that, as part of the evacuation efforts to overcome the people, known as vacations, estarían manana sábado in Cataño, Vega Baja, Carolina and Loíza, with 1,000 vacancies in each of the points. Aggregate that the vacuour will be posterior in Coamo, Maricao, Orocovis, hasta continued by all the municipalities, “following the line of, number one, contagios; number two, amount of delivery; and number three, access. And we will follow this punctual line ”.

In this way, many activities involve massive trials, known as Coviveo in Humacao, Guayanilla and Moca.

“We are going to visit all the people, we are going to do activities to evacuate more people and we are going to complete with the meta that we are doing”, urges it.

As for the participation of the pharmaceutical cadets, detailed that Walgreens commenced on the day of high, with 10,700 weekly vacancies, which distributed in 103 tithes through all of the Isla. The next week will be CVS (2000 vacancies in Fajardo tenancy), Costco and Walmart (4,000 vacancies, 25 tenants). Walgreens evacuated 37,911 patients with prolonged care.

The doctor Mellado vermaan to the population to have passion and make sure that everyone tends to his vacuna. In particular, it directs people over 65 years of age, and ensures that “they do not have to file” because they are contacted by the Department of Health or any pharmaceutical company participating in a turnaround and can be evacuated.

Reiteró su llamado a la calma y recordo that the group of more than 65 years is a population of one 600,000 people and for so long to take time off vacant people and all.

“We want the people to be quiet, we want to make sure the vaccine leaves them lying,” Mellado wrote. “However, it means that the number of vacancies is limited and that the number of vacancies is increased by the number of people with increased incidence. And so it’s something I did not invent yo, it’s something that is the normal evacuation process ”.

“Esos turnos le van a llegar al paciente a su casa, ya sea por correo, o lo van a llamar. For this reason, the patient does not have to enter any page, does not have to call anything. Simply put, it’s going to turn around, ”he explained. “But there are more than 600,000 patients 65 years old in Puerto Rico. For this, the exhortation and communication on my part will be calm. La vacuna va a llegar, la vacuna no se va a acabar. The CDC (Center for the Control and Prevention of Injuries) has a project to continue sending vaccine over vaccine until all persons are evacuated to the states, territories and Puerto Rico ”.

On the other hand, the doctor commented that the DS had given a guide to the Department of Education that tends to complete every school that is open. Explain that these guides are based on the effects to which the CDC has been given, which he has increased with a local herramientas, such as the bioportal and the rastreos system. Aggregate that the DS be inspected the schools to ensure compliance with these protocols and in addition maintain a continuous vigilance on the issues. Sondeverbod, stated that the decision to open a school in the Department of Education.

In addition to dealing with a public policy issue, Mellado defended the way to present the classes of manners by “a number of other reasons from the point of view of salubrista” as nutrition, more COVID-19, dental care, as well as the hecho of that a number of pediatricians and psychologists “who say that the nines have to interact”.

With regard to the professional evacuation of health, the doctor indicated that health professionals who have not been evacuated for the reason that sea, can do so. It was recorded that in the first phase of evacuation 110,000 professionals were evacuated.

“Tienen el accesses la la vacuna. It does not mean that we are in this phase. Any professional of the health that fails, and decides to evacuate, clarifies what we need to protect ”, said.