During the closing of the VIII National Health Meeting, the Governor of the Province of Buenos Aires, Axel Kicillof, said that “the pandemic gave us the opportunity to show that the health system, as it is, is useless.” In that sense, he assured that because of that many countries could not obtain vaccines or did so in lesser quantity than others.
“In a large part of our planet, on our same continent, there are those who did not access basic care in the midst of the pandemic,” he said. the official. In the same line, Axel Kicillof He remarked that “there are countries where there is plenty of vaccine and other billions that have not received a single dose” and that there is no better demonstration than that to make clear “that health systems must be reformed, reinforce them and think about them differently “.
As for how the health situation is in Buenos Aires territory, Axel Kicillof He indicated: “When the pandemic appeared, the one that took charge of the cost, the responses and especially the health care was the State of the Province of Buenos Aires, the National State and the municipal government.” In turn, he added that in “no one was left without a respirator and without a bed” in his district.
How is the Buenos Aires vaccination campaign coming?
Due to the large territory that comprises it, the Province of Buenos Aires is today the jurisdiction with the most confirmed cases since the beginning of the pandemic: 2,070,493. However, also due to its number of inhabitants, it is the one with the highest number of vaccines applied: 23,415,379.
The Buenos Aires Minister of Health, Nicolás Kreplak, confirmed that starting next week they will begin to vaccinate with third doses all immunocompromised people and also those who are over 50 years old and are immunized with the Sinopharm vaccine. As confirmed by the official, the shifts will be sent automatically and without the need to re-register in the application or website.
On the other hand, the health portfolio reported through a statement that “the Province of Buenos Aires carried out studies of effectiveness and immunogenicity of all the vaccines applied and the results were highly satisfactory.” Likewise, they highlighted that thanks to this the entry of the Delta variant could be delayed.
