679 frontline healthcare workers get first vaccine shot

The Ministry of Health (Minsa) and the Social Security Fund (CSS) hope to complete the delivery of the last batch of vaccines to health personnel next Tuesday.

Itzel de Hewitt,   Head  of the Expanded Immunization Program (PAI), explained said that yesterday they began vaccinating in the main hospitals in against Panama and Panama Oeste and today they will send the vaccines to Darién, Herrera, Los Santos, Coclé and   Bocas del Toro

Until yesterday at 6:30 pm, the Ministry reported that 672 doses of vaccines had been supplied to doctors, nurses and other health personnel in the provinces of Panama and Panama Oeste.

On Friday, they expect to send the last shipment of vaccines to Chiriquí and Veraguas, in order to complete the application throughout the country by Tuesday. After that, they would have to wait 21 more days to apply the other dose, as the vaccine from the pharmaceutical duo Pfizer-BioNTech needs two doses per person

Simón Theoktisto, 60-year-old head of the intensive care ward of the Dr. Arnulfo Arias Madrid Metropolitan Complex, was the second Panamanian and the first doctor to be vaccinated at the beginning of the process. A 59-yeqr-old nurse in the Santo Tomas ICU was the first