Vaccine line-jumpers got jabs Ministry confirms

The Vice Minister of Health, Ivette Berrío, has confirmed that doses of the vaccine against Covid-19 were applied to people who did not qualify.

Panama began its vaccination process against the virus last Wednesday, January 20, with the arrival of a first batch of Pfizer vaccines, about 12,800 doses.

“It was detected in the technological information that the vaccination process gives us that a few doses were placed in people who did not correspond to them,” said on Sunday in the program ‘Open Debate’ on Telemetro.

Berrío did not specify the number of people who were vaccinated without being in the front line group in the battle against the virus, but he announced that this occurred in the capital city and that the institution’s leadership will take the corresponding actions.  

Earlier  the Social Security (CSS) had said it would fire line-jumpers

The complaints of favoritism and playing alive in the application of vaccines were made from the first day of vaccination by medical associations, who warned that there was no inspection or distribution plan for the vaccines.

ICU doctors in the front line of battle against the virus staged protests at the CSS complex in Panama City and at Hospital Santo Tomas.

In the case of the CSS, the director Enrique Lau Cortés affirmed that an investigation was carried out on the complaints and that all the people who have been vaccinated are within the first phase of vaccination.

Lau Cortés said in Telemetro that those who reported irregularities in the vaccination process referred to 13 people from the entity and that after the audit it was verified that the people are CSS officials and that they are exposed to the coronavirus.

Berrío reiterated that Pfizer has not yet confirmed when the second batch of vaccines will arrive.

According to the vaccination program, in phase 1-A, health workers and support personnel will be vaccinated on the front line in the public and private systems. Bedridden adults over 60 years old, in nursing homes and at home.

Until 11 am this Sunday, the portal enabled to record the process reported that 5,781 vaccines have been applied.

The Vice Minister of Health, Ivette Berrío, has confirmed that doses of the vaccine against Covid-19 were applied to people  who did not qualify.

Panama began its vaccination process against the virus last Wednesday, January 20, with the arrival of a first batch of Pfizer vaccines, which is about 12,800 doses.

“It was detected in the technological information that the vaccination process gives us that a few doses were placed in people who did not correspond to them,” said on Sunday in the program ‘Open Debate’ on Telemetro .

Berrío did not specify the number of people who were vaccinated without being in the front line group in the battle against the virus, but he announced that this occurred in the capital city and that the institution’s leadership will take the corresponding actions. 

Earlier  the Social Security (CSS) had said it would fire line-jumpers

The complaints of favoritism and playing alive in the application of vaccines were made from the first day of vaccination by medical associations, who warned that there was no inspection or distribution plan for the vaccines.

ICU doctors in the front line of battle against the virus staged  protests at the CSS complex in Panama City  and at Hospital Santo Tomas.

In the case of the CSS, the director Enrique Lau Cortés, affirmed that an investigation was carried out on the complaints and that all the people who have been vaccinated are within the first phase of vaccination.

Lau Cortés said in Telemetro that those who reported irregularities in the vaccination process referred to 13 people from the entity and that after the audit it was verified that the people are CSS officials and that they are exposed to the coronavirus.

On the other hand, Berrío reiterated that Pfizer has not yet confirmed when the second batch of vaccines will arrive.

According to the vaccination program, in phase 1-A, health workers and support personnel will be vaccinated on the front line in the public and private system. Bedridden adults over 60 years old, in nursing homes and at home.

Until 11 am this Sunday, the portal enabled to record the process reported that 5,781 vaccines have been applied.