San Pedro Sula.
Tomorrow Saturday comes to 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 Institute of Social Security (IHSS) at the national level.
Deputy Minister Health, Roberto Cosenza, explained that, of the 48,000 doses, “more than 36,646 will be for the public institutions of the Secretariat Health, over 7,000 will be applied to staff from social Security and more than 4,000 for the private sector comprising the largest hospitals in San Pedro Sula Yes Tegucigalpa”.
The official explained that the region Health from San Pedro Sula will receive 7,068 doses, 1,911 for the Cortés health region, which will benefit the hospital in the Puerto Cortés area. The region Health de Yoro will receive 2,351 doses that will cover the staff of El Progreso Hospital. “With this we will benefit all the hospitals in the Sula Valley,” Cosenza said.
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26,488 Covid-19 cases have been reported in San Pedro Sula since the first infection was detected so far. The positivity is 51%, and the mortality rate is 3%, with 900 deaths. |
“It is important to mention that the places that benefit most from the application of the vaccine will be the Metropolitan Church San Pedro Sula Yes Tegucigalpa, because there is the largest population and there are reference hospitals “, said the Deputy Minister.
This week it was reported that the first day of vaccination against San Pedro Sula It exceeded the target, as the target was to inoculate 830 health workers, but it was possible to apply the vaccine to 929 doctors and nurses.
The official said that vaccines submitted by Covax / Gavi and from the pharmaceutical company AstraZeneca are of the viral vector type, so they do not need rigorous cold chains, as in the case Pfizerand also the time of application of the second dose is two to three months after the first.
This first batch of vaccines the anticovid is part of the 139,200 doses that Honduras you will receive in March. Total, Covax announced a batch of 424,800 doses of vaccine AstraZeneca for the country to be received between March and May.
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The head of the health region of Cuts, Dinorah Nolasco, said the vaccine staff has already begun training to better manage covid immunization.
“As departmental, we manage 11 municipalities, the staff will be trained at the health center level to start this vaccination process which is very important for us,” he said. “Our goal is to vaccinate social security personnel and private units that are already registered.
As a government, we are pleased that this vaccine is available in advance Easter week“It simply came to our notice then.