The National Cancer Institute confirmed to EL TIEMPO that next Wednesday at 7 am, Rocío Pérez, the main emergency nurse who treats patients with covid-19 from that entity, will receive the first vaccine against covid-19 in the country.
This hospital was one of those prioritized by Bogotá City Hall among the top seven in the capital where health workers will be immunized with Pfizer vaccines. 1,323 professionals and employees are registered in that entity facing covid-19 in the first line.
Lina Trujillo, deputy director of nursing and teaching at the National Cancer Institute, explained that the first vaccine at that care center will receive the vaccine very early Wednesday and at 7 a.m. immunization will begin with the dose that Pérez will receive. receive.
The second dose will have to be applied within 28 days, with a new shipment, Trujillo explained.
Those responsible for applying the vaccine will be officials from the central-eastern network of the Ministry of Health. Specifically, eight groups of vaccinators will conduct the process at this location.
It is worth remembering that 12,562 of the first 50,000 doses that landed in Colombia on Monday will be distributed over two days in seven hospitals in Bogotá.
Also, that during the first stage of the National Vaccination Plan, the immunization of approximately 350,000 front-line health workers is expected. When this group is completed, approximately 1.2 million people over the age of 80 will begin to be vaccinated.
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