“A year ago I did not see my family or my partner,” says Alejandra Bohórquez, a physiotherapist at the Zipaquirá Regional Hospital in charge of the rehabilitation of people who enter the Intensive Care Unit due to complications from Covid-19, while getting ready to receive the vaccine against the disease. “Although I must maintain security measures, this is an important step to get closer to my loved ones,” he says.
With the arrival of the first vaccines of the COVAX mechanism, the initiative of the World Health Organization To ensure an equitable distribution of immunizations around the world, and the start of vaccination on February 17, a hope has been opened in Colombia, which is expected to be the beginning of the end of the pandemic.
The country has thus become one of the first in the hemisphere to receive the vaccines of the Covax initiative.
This was made possible because Colombia is ready for introduction and successful deployment to apply the vaccines.
According to the report of the Ministry of Health and Social Protection, In the first 48 hours of vaccination against COVID-19, 7,854 members of the health personnel who are on the front lines of the fight against COVID-19 received the first dose of the vaccine against the virus.
“We still have a long way to go. In four or five days we could meet the goal of vaccinating 50,000 health workers with this first wave of vaccines, ”said the Minister of Health, Fernando Ruiz Gómez.