Officials of the health jurisdiction of Coahuila received the vaccine by Pfizer and BioNTech against COVID-19, despite the fact that they are not in the first line of care or have direct contact with the sick.
According to information from Milenio, the personnel who applied vaccines in the 12th Regiment of the Ministry of National Defense explained that although there were 180 vaccines for the health personnel who is on the front line of battle, distributed 29 more “to the officials who wanted to be vaccinated ”.
Against Covid-19 in Coahuila; Nurse, first to receive doses Erika Trinidad Escobedo Torres, head of the nursing area of the General Hospital of Saltillo, became the first health worker to receive the Covid-19 vaccine in the state of Coahuila. pic.twitter.com/dGeRa7Q1pA
– DOS FRONTERAS NEWSPAPER (@ 2fronteras) December 28, 2020
An example is the head of the Acuña Sanitary Jurisdiction, Guillermo Herrera, who received the vaccine instead of a nurse or doctor; In addition, he posed for the photo after being vaccinated.
# Find out The application of the COVID-19 vaccine from ‘Pfizer’ to Health personnel from Saltillo, Coahuila, began this morning, this after the transfer of 8,775 doses from the Monterrey, NL airport.
Photo: Internet pic.twitter.com/hY9oyamuBW
– Television Tabasqueña (@TVTenlinea) December 28, 2020
Herrera is a doctor, but his work is purely administrative and does not directly care for any patient with COVID-19 nor is he responsible for transfers or supplying them with any medication.
Given this, the Coahuila Health Secretariat sent a statement in which he confirmed the vaccination of the head of Health Jurisdiction Number 2 and argued that it was a legitimate act, because in September the official tested positive for covid-19, in addition to “continuously supervising units in person medical centers in which covid-19 patients are directly cared for ”and“ maintain direct contact ”with medical personnel.
Not only CDMX and Coahuila will have the vaccine, it was a trial to “calibrate” the system: AMLO https://t.co/vjAT3CIM7K pic.twitter.com/LyC8dBKauG
– Formula Group (@Radio_Formula) December 22, 2020
With information from Milenio
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