Dr. Robert Núñez, director of the Eighteenth Health Region, said on Tuesday that there was a report from the General Directorate of the Hospital de Barrio Obrero about a complaint of the application of different vaccines against Covid-19 in white staff. There is now an ongoing investigation.
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The official assured that these professionals in white of Barrio Obrero Hospital who received the Sinopharm vaccine as a second dose instead of the CoronaVac do not run health risks, since they would have the same inactivated live virus and the only thing that is different is the origin.
Núñez mentioned that all vaccinated people and those involved in vaccination are even summoned to collect more data.
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“First we have to go hear what happened, the event, we meet with all the people who are involved to explain the procedure that we are going to follow and what risks there are and what there are not, after that we will be informing them,” he said. in conversation with the station 1020 AM.
He said that they are meeting with Dr. Héctor Castro, head of the Expanded Immunization Program (PAI), to talk with all affected officials.
“We are going to investigate, we want to see what implications and what really happened, we still cannot blame anyone if we still do not have an investigation on that. Now we have a first meeting, with that we will see the first implication and what decisions to make,” he added .
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More than a month after the start of the vaccination program in the country, to date there are less than 50,000 people vaccinated against the coronavirus. Not even all white personnel could yet be immunized.
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