Doctors and in-house assistants and trainees are not included in the Covid-19 National Immunization Plan, which the federal government launched in Tamaulipas on Wednesday, January 13th.
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Therefore, the willingness of the Ministry of Health to take them out of hospitals for a period of 45 days from this January 16, is a favorable strategy for the health union, given the increase in infections and deaths caused by coronavirus.
“We need to protect them because they are our next doctors and nurses, we need to protect them more when the vaccine (coronavirus) did not include stockbrokers from the beginning.”
This was stated in an interview by Mario Wong Barragán, director of the Family Clinic of ISSSTE Tampico, where less than 20 university trainees and trainees in health care, medicine and dentistry end their year of social service and who are not were vaccinated at this early stage of the day.
“No, they were not vaccinated (…) so it is a good strategy (reservation) because they are in training, it is the future of the medical branches, they do not have insurance to protect them, they come to fulfill a year of social service, put them on and make them sick, why expose them ”.
He assured that in these months of pandemic, there were no cases of contagion among the fellows and that they were required to use rigorously personal protective equipment, such as masks and masks, to reduce the risks they face when they are present in the installations.
Finally, Wong Barragán stated that although the state plan envisaging IMSS and ISSSTE for the withdrawal of scholarship holders and trainees has been extended, these indications have not been made officially to the institution they represent, so they are in waiting for the home delivery order.