when the platform my argentina incorporated the Covid vaccine register with the features of an international document, many worried to see if their doses appeared correct. That was September 2021. Now, a word of advice: if you’ve had coronavirus backup in the meantime and haven’t checked the app, do so. There may be errors.
In some cases the problems are with adults, who may have taken five doses and La Mia Argentina shows them four. Others have received four doses and the platform has registered three.
There are also arguments with pediatric vaccines: this medium has recorded five cases (in Entre Ríos and in the city of Buenos Aires) of boys who had received their reinforcement (that is, three doses in total) and the site reports only two.
Other missing doses correspond to six adults vaccinated in the aforementioned jurisdictions, and also in Mendoza and the province of Buenos Aires.
In Misiones it is common to hear cases of people who have received the first booster (they have three doses), but only two are listed. One of the people consulted explained that he had passed the complaint to the Vaccination Area of the Provincial Ministry of Health, e they fixed the error.
It is difficult to draw a pattern that describes the problem, other than the fact that in all cases what is missing is a booster (i.e. dose 3, 4 or 5), as if something started to fail after the population received the “basic scheme” against Covid (the first two doses), essential for most international travel.
The dates of the undelivered reinforcements in the crates you found clarion they are completely dissimilar.
There are people who were vaccinated in the first week of December 2022 and, although they have the dose incorporated in their own hand in the vaccination bulletin, the data, in My Argentina, is conspicuous by its absence.
Others, on the other hand, received the reinforcement, for example, almost a year ago (February 2022) and don’t even have it in the official system.
So it cannot be said that at a certain moment the missing doses will “drop” or impact the national system, as (it still hurts to remember) happened with the delays in reporting people who died from Covid.
An extreme case of the type of errors that can be encountered is that of a woman from Buenos Aires whose My Argentina profile lists not one but two reinforcements on the same date. According to the system, multiple vaccinations occurred in different vaccinations and with doses of different brands.
Why are there gaps in the vaccine register?
At the end of this note it was difficult to disambiguate the core of the issue. Nation hold the jurisdictions accountable and, at least in the city of Buenos Aires, indicate Country.
It is worth noting that the “bulletin”, that notebook distributed in vaccination clinics, is not an official document but only an individual register of doses, which could be useful for some informal procedures, but is not recognized by a valid document.
The same page of Mi Argentina clarifies that “the digital credential is Argentina’s official document to certify vaccination against COVID-19 in the country and abroad”.
The authorities responsible for that platform, in particular the Innovation Secretariat -responsible for Micaela Sánchez Malcom-, an organization headed by the Chief of Staff Juan Manzur, explained to clarion that My Argentina reflects what is in the Federal Vaccination Registry (NOMIVAC), and they ensure that what is there or isn’t there depends on the provinces.
In particular, they said, “each jurisdiction uploads vaccination records so that after replies to Mi Argentina. It may happen that jurisdictions upload data to their own registry, but not to NOMIVAC, which is the federal registry.”
The “bot” of CABA and Mi Argentina, a difficult marriage
It is known that these inconveniences are usually due to historical governance problems of the Ministry of Health with respect to the provinces, sometimes more (sometimes less) stubborn when it comes to share your health information.
While some jurisdictions use approved systems that are well synchronized with the national system (SISA), in others (make sure the most critical) the data is loaded manually in a similar way to copyists in the Middle Ages: on the one hand, the vaccine is registered applied in the provincial system, and on the other (sometimes with delays; many others, with errors), in the national one.
However, five of the six people vaccinated in CABA with missing doses that this medium found (…within minutes. There must be many cases) said their doses were “fine” in consultation with the WhatsApp robot from WhatsApp. A chat through which you can obtain a vaccination certificate, which strictly speaking has no official validity.
Consulted on this issue, the Ministry of Health of Buenos Aires explained that “when the interested party applies the dose, it is recorded which dose has been applied and which vaccine, together with the date and establishment. In this process the vaccines are uploaded to the Sigheos system and the information can be accessed via ‘Boti’”.
There – they continue – “all the applied doses of the anti-Covid vaccine can be found in detail. After this process, the information is automatically replicated in the Nomivac app.
That is to say that “the data that appears in national orbit applications such as Mi Argentina feeds on what appears in the latter platform”.
In short, they recommended reclaim the nation.
What to do to request vaccines
entering www.argentina.gob.ar/miargentina/consulta You can enter the complaint for omissions in the shipment of vaccines. The process has its own requirements.
Once the fields on that page have been filled in (an adult can fill in their personal data, even to request vaccines for their children), the system sends an email to their personal mailbox, where they are asked to respond with certain documentation.
Surprisingly, it is required to attach a photo of the DNI of the person who has the problem, which is striking, considering that My Argentina is precisely the reservoir for this type of document.
In addition, a photo of the vaccination bulletin is requested, that unofficial card mentioned above.
Finally a screenshot certifying the error in My Argentina.
From the Secretariat for Innovation they explained that, “in the event that the vaccines do not appear in My Argentina, the request must be made through the help desk to ask the corresponding jurisdiction to upload the data to NOMIVAC. This statement usually it takes no more than 48 hours”.
For those who have lost their vaccination bulletin at this point, a couple of clarifications.
Those who live in CABA can alternatively send the “Boti” certificate.
For those in provinces that do not provide these certificates, Innovation recommended “going to the vaccination center or to the jurisdiction where they gave you the bulletin. It is a register that each jurisdiction keeps”.
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