Pfizer's vaccine against Covid-19 reaches the Archipelago toilets
The vaccination of health personnel started yesterday in Gran Canaria, Tenerife and El Hierro; after it started the week before in Fuerteventura, La Gomera, Lanzarote and La Palma. In these last two islands, in addition, the vaccination process of group one of the aforementioned phase ended days ago, that is, of users and workers of the social health centers. The forecast is that this Thursday will also be the case in the rest of the island territory.
And it is these spaces where the initiative began on December 27, by housing one of the most vulnerable groups against the pandemic. According to Health, as of Sunday 12,678 of the 17,097 people included in this first target group had already been vaccinated, which represents 74.15% of the total number of users and staff of the social health centers.
The initiative started days ago in Lanzarote, La Palma, La Gomera and Fuerteventura
The forecast by the Canarian Executive is that next week the second dose of the vaccine will begin to be administered to those people who received the first during the aforementioned day in which the national vaccination campaign began. Remember that the drug made by Pfizer and BioNTech is supplied twice 21 days apart.
For their part, the health workers in charge of caring for Covid-19 have already begun to receive the first dose of the product in a process that will last until the 32,000 people who make up the Canary Islands Health Service (SCS) included in this group two. The Escaleritas Health Center in Las Palmas de Gran Canaria was one of the first to open the doors to the drug that yesterday injected a little more than twenty workers, including doctors, nurses and other personnel of the health enclave, in which it was the first day of vaccination.
“We are very happy because in our health center 82% of the workforce has accepted the vaccination. Some levels that we had not even reached with the flu vaccine, ”says the director of this health space, Alicia González Sansó. This data means that between yesterday and today some 74 people will receive the antidote at this health center in the capital of Gran Canaria.
The first to do so last day was, precisely, the deputy director, Chiquinquira Mesa Suárez who, despite confessing that she was "afraid of needles even though she was a nurse with more than 25 years of career", did not hesitate to put her arm in order for him to inject the first dose. The person in charge of doing so was another colleague, Paula González Hernández, a specialist in Family and Community Nursing, through whose hands more than twenty syringes loaded with the drug passed, which were also received by María Gloria Guerra de la Torre, a specialist in Family and Community Medicine as well. than Diego de Luis, a fourth-year resident of the same specialty, among other professionals.
82% of the staff of the Escaleritas Health Center agree to inject the drug
With more or less nerves, all of them agree on the importance of "leading by example" in the face of the rest of the population. Likewise, they also valued the importance of taking care of themselves "in order to continue caring for others." Hence, they were also sure of being part of the vaccination campaign whose first phase will last until next March, when the Canarian Government expects to have received 169,000 doses of the drug. And it is that once the second group is finished, the process will continue with the other two remaining groups that include the rest of health workers and, finally, people with a high degree of non-institutionalized dependency.
If the health professionals and workers of the Escaleritas Health Center showed something yesterday, it was security. And it is that all of them starred in the first vaccination day of the health enclave where 82% of the workforce agreed to undergo the process that began yesterday in Gran Canaria, Tenerife and El Hierro. On these lines, one of the sanitary facilities of the aforementioned center shortly before receiving the injection. Next to it, a nurse prepares the syringe with one of the doses of the antidote. |
