San Pedro Sula.
Tomorrow comes Saturday San Pedro Sula the first batch of 48,000 doses of vaccines donated through the Covax / Gavi mechanism, which will be applied to all public, private and health personnel Honduran Social Security Institute (IHSS) nationwide.
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 Healthmore than 7,000 will be applied to the staff of the Social Security and more than 4,000 to the private sector comprising the largest hospitals in San Pedro Sula Y Tegucigalpa
The official explained that the region Health from San Pedro Sula will receive 7,068 doses, of which 1,911 for the health region of Cortés, which will benefit the hospital of Puerto Cortés Area. The region Health the Yoro will receive 2,351 doses that will cover El Progreso’s hospital staff. “This would benefit all hospitals in the Sula Valley,” said Cosenza.
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26,488 Covid-19 cases have been recorded in San Pedro Sula since the first contamination was discovered to date. The positivity is 51% and the death rate is 3% with 900 deaths. |
“It is important to mention that the places that benefit the most from the application of the vaccine are the Metropolitan or San Pedro Sula Y Tegucigalpabecause that is where the largest population is and the reference hospitals are located, ”said the State Secretary.
This week it was reported that the first day of anticovid vaccination was in San Pedro Sula It exceeded the target as the goal was to inoculate 830 health professionals, but it was possible to apply the vaccine to 929 doctors and nurses.
The official stated that vaccines send by Covax / Gavi and from the pharmaceutical company AstraZeneca are of the viral vector type, so they don’t need strict cold chains, as in the case of Pfizer, and also the application time of the second dose is two to three months after the first.
This first batch of vaccines anticovid is part of 139,200 doses Honduras you will receive it in March. Total, Covax announced a batch of 424,800 doses of the vaccine AstraZeneca for the country to be received between the months of March and May.
Education
The head of the health region of Cuts Dinorah Nolasco, said the staff responsible for administering the vaccine has already begun training to better manage immunization against covid.
“As a departmental we manage 11 municipalities, the staff will be trained at the health center level to start this vaccination process that is very important to us,” he said. “Our goal is to vaccinate social security personnel and private institutions that are already registered.
As a government, we are satisfied that this vaccine is available sooner Easter week“Completed Nolasco.