At the last Unified Command Post of the Ministry of Healththe head of that portfolio, Fernando Ruiz, announced that the National Vaccination Plan will begin to close starting next week.
“Now it is key to integrate the vaccine covid al Expanded Program of Immunizations (PAI) ”, assured Minister Ruiz and indicated that to date more than 81 million anticovid doses have been applied.
This implies that vaccination against the coronavirus will continue, but with the personnel and resources that are available in the EPI. They are the same ones used for the rest of the vaccines in the country, such as influenza, measles and pneumococcus.
Ruiz explained that this closure of the massive phase of the National Vaccination Plan will take place in four different stages. This includes “the accounting of the biologicals sent from the national level and applied in the territories, validation of figures, uploading of missing reports to PAIWEB and reconciliation and payment of accounts with IPS,” Ruiz said.
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It will be an institutional work of great proportions, since will involve sending verification teams from the Ministry of Health and the Superintendence of Health to the Territorial Entities. The head of the Health portfolio explained that the first place in which the anticovid vaccination accounts will be crossed will be Bogotá, where the entire plan will be piloted.
Minister Ruiz’s important announcement came just as the country is close to having 70% of its population vaccinated with complete schematics -one dose of Janssen or two doses of the rest of vaccines-. According to the latest official report, the vaccinators They have applied 81,433,240 anticovid doses since the National Vaccination Plan began.
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In total, 88,558,452 have been distributed throughout the national territory.
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