The province of Ourense has reached 99% of home vaccinations this week. This means that close to 3,500 people immobilized, mostly older than 70 years who cannot travel to the vaccination centers, have already received the second dose of Pfizer or the new Janssen vaccine. A solution monodosis, which guarantees immunization with a single prick, which has helped speed up the home vaccination process. Until now it has been a complex process given the conditions of storage of the Pfizer vaccine (which requires freezers with extremely low temperatures) and the great geographic dispersion of the population.
Home vaccination
In the Maceda health center they coordinate the distribution and vaccination of five city councils and their rural nuclei. From early in the morning they organize the home vaccination service. A true chain of work where every link is important. From the carrier to the patient. We have accompanied a team of nurses during a day of home vaccination to check the difficulties they face in their daily lives.
At 8:00 they receive the vials, which arrive from Santiago de Compostela (an hour and a half by road). They check its temperature (it should be between 2 and 8 degrees) and that the amount is correct. Thus begins the preparation of the vials and their distribution in doses. Now yes, the teams start up because they have 3 hours to inoculate the extracted doses. In that period of time, 90 vaccines were provided by six nurses.
Intense days and good organization They are the key to the success of home vaccination in the province of Ourense.
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