On Monday, April 5, it will culminate with the application of the first dose to teachers in the public education sector and will begin with teachers in the private system. However, the government classified all information on vaccines, including procurement, as confidential.
The vaccination process against COVID-19 for the elderly and people with chronic diseases will begin on Wednesday, April 7, President Nayib Bukele informed on Sunday evening.
“On Wednesday we started with people with chronic degenerative diseases and our elderly adults,” he wrote on his Twitter account.
In addition, he announced that for Monday, April 12, “the Mega Vaccination Center will be inaugurated, with the capacity to serve 10,000 people a day. That will put us at a rate of 30,000 people a day. “
However, Bukele has not clarified why they will not be used for this purpose. vaccination modules in which the Government made a million-dollar expenditure months ago. In the words of the Minister of Health, Francisco Alabí, in January, the health strategy, the cost of which he set himself at 5 million dollars and for which he received criticism from the same body of doctors and nurses, “does not only involve the placement of to a cube, ”he claimed.
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Regarding the vaccination of teachers in the public education sector, the president said that on Monday, the process will be completed and the application of the first dose against COVID-19 for teachers in the private sector will begin immediately.
He added that on Thursday he intends to vaccinate university professors, with whom they will end the process next Sunday, April 11.
However, this information on how the vaccination process is carried out cannot be verified because The government has classified all information on vaccines as reserved, including purchases.
During the receipt of the fourth batch of vaccines on March 28, the Minister of Health said that with these doses, it was expected “to cover our 50,000 teachers before returning to classes on April 6.”
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Now, Bukele also stated that the country will receive a donation of 150,000 doses against COVID-19 from China, whose arrival will be on Tuesday evening.
According to the president, the vaccines “are in addition to the 2 million purchased from SINOVAC by our government.”
However, the Salvadoran government did not disclose the cost of the vaccines it bought.
The Ministry of Health (Minsal) stated the full reservation of information related to the application and purchase of vaccines against COVID-19, thus prohibiting access to these data for periods between 3 and 5 years, according to a document from Index of reserved information Minsal, updated on March 11 on its transparency website.
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Confronted with the government’s statement of confidentiality regarding data on the purchase of vaccines and the process of providing them, transparency experts say this affects people’s right to be informed about their health and health problems. his life.