The Minister of Health, Sonia Martorano, highlighted that June represented a historic month in terms of the progress of the national immunization campaign against the coronavirus in the province of Santa Fe, the day that just six months after the beginning of its implementation (December 29, 2020), date that also coincided with the granting of 41,396 shifts in one day, which is a real record so far.
In this sense, Martorano celebrated this progress – among others of importance – in the framework of a tour of the regional hospital of Venado Tuerto, where he observed the accelerated pace of inoculation of the effector, congratulated the health workers for the way in which they are managing the care of covid-19 cases that require hospitalization, among other aspects.
"It is very pleasant for me to be touring this Gutiérrez hospital where I once worked, also noting that we are doing well in Venado Tuerto and in the region in terms of vaccination, and fundamentally at the provincial level because June was a record: 800,000 doses were already applied this month alone, we are above 1,3000,000 first doses and reaching 340,000 second doses applied", the province's health minister expressed.
"In addition," Martorano celebrated, "coinciding with the six months of the campaign, today was a record day because for the first time we have delivered 41,396 shifts. This is in the context of other achievements: 40,000,000 shifts were added to the 140,000 we gave on Friday of last week; nearly 800,000 shifts were delivered in June; we are vaccinating people under the age of 40 without comorbidities across the province; and 80% of pregnant people have already taken turns."
Remarkable tireless Health workers
While touring the facilities of the regional hospital of Venado Tuerto –accompanied by the Secretary of Municipalities and Communes José Luis Freyre, the head of that region of Health Pedro Bustos and by the director of the effector Daniel Alzari–, Sonia Martorano said that it is a place "very loved" by her and "very thriving", while adding : "We want to accompany and thank here the vaccinators who work tirelessly, without Saturday, Sunday, or holiday; because we are all committed and the idea is that, as our governor Omar Perotti says, every dose that arrives goes quickly to the arm of each Santa Fe, which is the best place to be."
Martorano said: “The province has a 37% of the population vaccinated, a little more than 1,300,000 with the first dose, and 330,000 has the complete scheme.
She also reported that the arrival of vaccines is progressing in this way: "In the first dose and, with what arrives from AstraZeneca, we are completing the second dose schedules. That's why I said that by giving 41,000 shifts a day we're going very fast and we're dependent on the arrival of vaccines."
In closing, he stressed: "This goes hand in hand with what we want to achieve: immunity in our people, because we have a threat in front of us. While I think we are coming out of the second wave, it seems that these days the cases would be going down, but the risk of the Delta strain"
