San Pedro Sula.
Mañana sábado llega a San Pedro Sula the first lot of 48,000 doses of vacancies donated by the Covax / Gavi mechanism, which will be applied to all public, private and private health personnel Honduran Institute of Social Security (IHSS) a levels national.
The Deputy Minister of Health, Roberto Cosenza, explaining that, of the 48,000 doses, “more than 36,646 will be available to public Secretariat institutions. Health, more than 7,000 apply to the staff Social Security and more than 4,000 in the private sector which includes the largest hospitals of San Pedro Sula y Tegucigalpa”.
The detailed function of the region of Health of San Pedro Sula will receive 7,068 doses, 1,911 for the Cortés sanitation region, which will benefit the Puerto Cortés Area Hospital. The region of Health of Yoro will receive 2,351 doses which will cover the staff of El Progreso Hospital. “With these benefits we benefit all the hospital centers of the valley of Sula”, said Cosenza.
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26,488 cases of covid-19 register San Pedro Sula since the first contact was detected last season. The positivity rate is 51% and the lethality rate is 3% with 900 failure rates. |
It is important to note that the most benefited places with the application of the vacancy will be the Metropolitan of San Pedro Sula y Tegucigalpa“Because the mayor is in charge and the reference hospitals are located,” said the deputy minister.
This week informs that the first day of antiquated evacuation in San Pedro Sula surpasses the meta, which is as low as 830 health workers, but can be applied to the vacancy of 929 medics and nurses.
The employee explained that the vacant sent by Covax / Gavi and the results of the AstraZeneca pharmaceutical case are of the viral vector type, due to the non-necessary cadence of rigorous free radicals, as in the case of Pfizer, and the time of application of the second dose is two months after the first dose.
This is the first lot of vacant anticovid forms part of the 139,200 doses that Honduras will receive in March. Total, Covax announced a lot of 424,800 doses of the vaccine AstraZeneca for peace to be received between the months of March and May.
Capacity
The jefa of the sanitary region of Courtesy, Dinorah Nolasco, demonstrated that the staff responsible for applying the vaccine initiated the capacities with a view to a major maneuver of the munitions against the covid.
“As departmental staff 11 municipalities, staff will be able to level health centers to initiate this evacuation process that is very important for us”, he said. “Our meta is to evacuate the staff of the Social Security in private establishments that are registered.
As Gobierno we feel satisfied that this vacancy is before Semana Santa”, Conclusion Nolasco.