Vaccination Clinic COVID-19 for the elderly canceled due to lack of available doses

The Central University of the Caribbean (UCC) in Bayamón had to cancel a vaccination clinic for older adults scheduled for next Saturday because it was not receiving the vaccines they requested from the health department.

“Last Saturday (January 16) we held the first vaccination clinic for the elderly and vaccinated more than 500 in their first dose. We made a list for the next clinic, which was today (yesterday), but we had to cancel it because the vaccines had not arrived, ”he reported. Mildred Rivera, Dean of Institutional Development at the UCC.

The cancellation, he said, was announced on social media on Friday. They also called and emailed the people who had been summoned.

“Our intention was to vaccinate 500 or more older adults, but we depend on what Salud sends. Now we need to see what Health is going to determine with the new system (of shifts) and how the already registered people are going into that process, ”he said.

Rivera was referring to the electronic appointment system through the turnospr.com platform that designated Health Minister Carlos Mellado announced to this newspaper this week that it should start Monday.

Meanwhile, after being certified as a provider of this vaccination, the UCC has immunized more than 3,000 people, including health professionals and the elderly. This, Rivera said, with the help of more than 60 medical, biomedical and medical imaging students, under the supervision of physicians and graduates. He announced that they will continue to vaccinate health workers in their second dose next week.

On the other hand, VOCES Vaccination Coalition this morning held a vaccination clinic against the virus at the Mario Quijote Morales Coliseum, in Guaynabo. Lilliam Rodríguez, director of VOCES, reported that about 1,150 people who had made an earlier appointment by phone or email were immunized for the activity attended by health personnel, from the Puerto Rican Society of Pediatrics and Caridad Pierluisi, on behalf of their brother, governor Pedro Pierluisi.

“Given the amount of vaccines available, we are currently limited to allocating limited appointment spaces,” VOCES announced on its social networks on Tuesday. By January 20, 320,525 vaccines against COVID-19 had arrived on the island, of which 271,230 had been distributed and 161,570 were recorded as being administered, according to health data.