The National Institute of Cancerology confirms to EL TIEMPO that the nearest Wednesday in the 7th of March, Rocío Pérez, the nurse in charge of emergencies who attends covid-19 patients at this time, will receive the first vaccine against covid-19 in the country.
This hospital center is one of the priorities for the Alcaldía de Bogotá among the first in the capital to be equipped with Pfizer vehicles and health workers. This unit has 1,323 registered professionals and employees who work in the first line at covid-19.
Lina Trujillo, Deputy Director of Medical Attention and Teaching at the National Institute of Cancer Research, explained that the primary vaccine in this assistance center will receive the vaccine from the nurses and the 7th of the month will initiate the administration with the dose received.
The second dose tends to be applied in a space of 28 days, with a new volume, explains Trujillo.
The framed to apply the vacancy will be officials of the red center east of the Secretariat of Health. Specifically, there will also be groups of workers who will cover the process in this place.
It is estimated that 12,562 of the first 50,000 doses produced in Colombia these months will be distributed during these days at hospital centers in Bogota.
Asimismo, which during the first phase of the National Vacation Plan hopes to be equipped with around 350,000 first-line workers. When the time comes to cover this group, it will start vacating around 1.2 million mayors of 80 years.
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