Although the vaccination posts have the first and second components available, the influx of people requesting the Russian biological is low, a scenario that occurs a few days after the Health authorities made the use of the mask more flexible and a traffic light was published of health alerts that registers more municipalities in yellow, a total of 177.
At the post located in the Parque de la Constitución, in zone 1 of the capital, they were attended from eight in the morning to two in the afternoon. Lourdes Saquic, in charge of the center, mentioned that they had available doses of Pfizer, AstraZeneca and the second component of Sputnik V.
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He mentioned that during the week there was an influx of people looking for the first dose of the Russian vaccine, so this Saturday they only had six doses available to complete vaccination schedules.
“Given the number of people who have come every day -approximately 180- we calculate that we are going to finish them today,” said Saquic. For this April 30 they had only 10 doses available and after noon they had already placed four.
Another of the positions Free Press y Guatevision visited to record the number of people looking for doses of Sputnik V was the one located in the Guard of Honor. Everaldo Tajiboy, the person in charge of the place, mentioned that the visit of people has been greater here compared to other places, since it is a massive vaccination center that is open from Monday to Sunday and receives the population until eight at night.
This Saturday they received 40 doses of the second component of the Russian vaccine, and around one in the afternoon they had only applied two. He mentions that at the end of each shift, the doses are reported to the health center and what the balance is.
He also mentioned that the assistance of people begins at four in the afternoon, and opens the possibility that more Guatemalans come to complete the vaccination scheme with Sputnik V.
“The methodology we use is to apply a vaccine, and if the time of the cold chain passes, because the other dose is not administered – there are two per vial – then it is more likely that we will run out,” says Tajiboy. “Tomorrow they will no longer be applied,” he added, since the Russian drug has an expiration date of April 30, 2022.
Most of the people who have come to the position in the Guard of Honor are to get vaccinated with Pfizer, as it makes it easier for them to enter the United States, which does not happen with Sputnik V.
In Mariscal Zavala the scenario is the same, the auxiliary nurse Martina del Carmen Flores said that people come looking for Pfizer doses. Compared to previous weeks, the influx of Guatemalans who want to be vaccinated against covid-19 has decreased.
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“Of the Sptunik V vaccine we had only 24 doses of the first component, of the second 150 and it is walking. From the second component we have placed 30 and they took 20 in a brigade that left for the Metro Norte shopping center. If they need more, they will come back to get it,” Flores said, hoping that more people will arrive to place all the doses, since the post closes until eight at night.
According to the report of the National Center for Biologicals, until April 21 there were one million 15 thousand 806 doses, 80 percent of the second component. In the Health areas, as of that date, there were another 1,446 that also expire this Saturday.
You only have this day to administer them all, and that they are not lost like the 2,901,000 doses that expired on March 31, and the 61,412 million that expired on February 28.
For Olga Marina Najarro, a housewife, the expiration of the Sputnik V vaccines is due in part to the fact that the population is not interested in getting vaccinated, while Daniela Leal, a student, pointed out that the responsibility lies with the Ministry of Health and the the government authorities that did not implement the appropriate strategies to deliver the doses to the entire population.
The Ministry of Health will have to make a titanic effort to place more than a million doses of Sputnik V this Saturday, but also to apply 520 thousand 940 doses of AstraZeneca also expire this April 30.
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