Jocotepec City Hall personnel set up an awning to offer copies and CURP consultations to the people waiting in line to receive the vaccine
There were 1,800 vaccines applied on the second day of vaccination.
Berenice Barragan (Jocotepec) – The three-day vaccination campaign to deliver the second dose of SINOVAC in Jocotepec took place as more than four thousand senior citizens and hundreds of family members converged on the Community Hospital of Jocotepec.
Guards at the facilities said that in spite of the fact that health and municipal authorities asked people not to wait in line a day before or in the early morning, residents ignored the instruction, so that registration began as early as 2:00 a.m. when staff saw that elderly adults and family members were already lined up.
The 4,200 doses of SINOVAC vaccine arrived at approximately 11:00 a.m. on Monday, April 26, was unloaded, counted and prepared for distribution, which took medical personnel about an hour. First shots were applied at 12 noon. The process went smoothly on Day 1 and 800 shots were administered with little waiting once they began.
On Tuesday, April 27, the doses were already at the Community Hospital so the second day of the campaign began at 8:00 a.m., and the first group of 200 people were done and ready to leave with their booster an hour later. With 1,800 vaccines administered on the second day of the campaign, most of Jocotepec’s elderly population was immunized in two days.
Wednesday’s waiting line was much shorter, however people on the scene reported that there were dozens of people from Chapala, Cuidad Guzman, Ocotlan and even Guadalajara waiting at the hospital hoping to receive the second dose, since there was still no date for booster shots in their municipalities.
«People from other municipalities arrived for booster shots but we asked them to leave because the vaccine doses were already counted and labeled for the people of Jocotepec», Municipal Medical Services Director Ángel Aguirre Pimienta said.
Health personnel from the Community Hospital of Jocotepec, Servidores de la Nación and Municipal Medical Services personnel pointed to the quick and efficient vaccination of more than 4 thousand senior citizens in Jocotepec and its towns, calling it a success.
The director of Municipal Medical Services of Jocotepec, expressed his gratitude to the personnel of the Jocotepec City Hall, to the staff of the municipal clinic, the nurses and doctors of health centers and the medical staff of the host hospital, who provided assistance and care at all times to those vaccinated and their families. Translated by Patrick O’Heffernan
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