The President of the University of Puerto Rico (UPR), Dr. Jorge Haddock, reported Wednesday that the Central Administration has been making efforts to facilitate voluntary vaccination of teaching and non-teaching employees of the university system.
“As we have done since the onset of the emergency caused by the COVID-19 pandemic, we are taking proactive measures to prevent contamination among our students and staff. As a first step, and based on the recommendations of the health authorities, we began to identify the teaching and non-teaching staff interested in vaccination so that we could facilitate the logistics of the vaccination process for our population. I am confident that later, in addition to protecting health and safety, this management will allow us to resume classes in face-to-face mode in the next semester starting in August 2021, ”explained Haddock , in the expectation that the campuses and units will continue activities to conduct tests that detect the virus.
The interim Dean of Research of the UPR Medical Sciences Campus, Dr. Carmen D. Zorrilla, for her part, said that “it is important that the staff of the university community fill out the online form. This information will help us to establish a vaccination process, organized and by appointment, flexible and in timely coordination with the Ministry of Health and the National Guard in each of the units in which the initiative will be implemented ”.
For more information, teachers and non-teachers of the UPR can contact the Human Resources Office of their unit, campus or the Central Administration of the institution at the following e-mail: [email protected].
The UPR has an enrollment of approximately 50,000 students and approximately 11,000 employees, between teachers and non-teachers.