In the midst of a series of complaints about the lack of doses at various vaccination points, the President of the Republic, Guillermo Lasso, announced, without giving details of which pharmaceutical company, that 814,000 more vaccines will arrive in the country this week.
“This is very good news, which fills us with energy to continue working to achieve our goal: speed up the vaccination process and reactivate Ecuador,” the President wrote on his Twitter account, this June 15, 2021.
For several days there has been discomfort in some vaccination points due to the lack of doses. For example, on Friday, June 11, at the Benalcázar school, north of Quito, and at Técnico San José, in the south, there were complaints that citizens could not get their second dose of Pfizer.
El Comercio takes up the case of Galo Vasco and his wife Mónica Yánez, who received the first dose of Pfizer on May 21, 2021 at the University of the Hemispheres. That Friday, they went to the educational center in the south of Quito and could not be inoculated. “They told us they are over; they had only taken 30 ”, they claimed.
In other cases, those who suffer from catastrophic diseases and have responded to the Ministry’s call to be inoculated, have not been able to receive the vaccine. Security guards, policemen or the military who are at the entrance door tell them that there are no more vaccines.
The Minister of Health, Ximena Garzón, pointed out this morning that the previous government left an important quantity of vaccines negotiated, “but they are arriving in little, by drops.”
She reported that they are trying to advance their delivery, for example, with the COVAX mechanism (AstraZeneca), but acknowledged that the work is not easy. “We don’t have a stock of all the vaccines available,” she wrote.
In addition, she mentioned that they make a daily schedule about the doses she has to vaccinate. “But when sometimes there are certain gaps because the public can come closer and demand that a certain mark be placed, there may be a stock break at that time, which is immediately corrected, calling other points and taking those doses.”
She reiterated that they will comply with the vaccines to 9 million people in the first 100 days. In addition, they have the vaccines to comply with the second doses.
As of June 13, 3,081,172 vaccines have been placed: 2,043,159 received the first dose and 1,038,013 had their complete vaccination.
So far the current government has vaccinated 1’003.684 people. 8 million remain to fulfill his campaign promise until the first week of September.
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