The University of the Americas (UDLA), to the north of the city, will attend only on weekends while there are health sub-centers that also place doses.
Monica Alvarez, 50, had the position 70, 71 and 72 for one medical evaluation at the Las Casas health center, in Quito, this Wednesday.
Her husband, of the same age, is COVID-19 since last Thursday.
A bit annoyed, she said that, two months ago, she had taken a pediatric appointment for his son, but because the father of the minor carries the disease, he was told that he could be treated only until after he was tested for COVID-19.
He did not reach a shift on Tuesday, so they recommended him to go to another site, where they told him that they could not take a test because they had no symptoms.
After several explanations, she managed to get three shifts for her and two children, at the Las Casas health center. I did not have no medical prescription.
On one side of the entrance to this health center, located in the north of Quito, there are various tents in which people with respiratory symptoms wait to be answered.
Several people approached the entrance door this Wednesday to ask if it was vaccination point. Staff responded that no longer, who could go to the coliseum of the Central University, in the north center of the city.
In the exteriors of that higher education center, before 08:00, more than 100 people already lined up to receive first, second, or booster doses; 42 were inside sitting on plastic chairs.
María Isabel, 10 years old, it was one of them. He went to have the second dose put on him. Her mother argued that it is very important that her daughter is protected.
A Edith León, 76, they gave him the third dose of Sinovac Due to allergies, he brought a medical certificate. It was his turn a week ago for the reinforcement, but for some activities it was this Wednesday. The process, he indicated, was very fast.
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Jessica Cisneros, a specialist in family and community medicine from Ministry of Public Health (MSP), commented that at the Central University they inoculate daily 400 to 500 people.
He added that due to increased cases of respiratory symptoms, Las Casas health center has remained as a site for assessment and no longer for inoculation.
He explained that when the person goes to a health center, a doctor checks for clinical signs and symptoms and epidemiology to be positive for COVID-19 and based on this a test is performed.
Regarding clinical symptoms and signs, Cisneros pointed out that they are fever, tos, body discomfort, throat pain, muscle or joint pain
Within the epidemiological aspects, which has had direct contact with some positive person or that you have been in meetings with many people in which there was no social distancing without the use of a mask.
About the time to take a test, he mentioned that the PCR It is done from the third to fifth day of contact or onset of symptoms; while that of antigens, if you already have symptoms, it is applied in the same period.
“If I as a patient go to a health center I will not necessarily require a (medical) prescription because I am going to be cared for by a professional; he is going to analyze me If I have a fever, cough, sore throat, he will examine me and see if I had contact with a positive person (…) and based on it Is he going to test me or not, “said Cisneros.
The official said that there is between 12 and 15 health centers that they are only dedicated to respiratory triage.
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Other places in the capital of the Republic, also returned to be immunization sites such as the Alfonso del Hierro school, in the Cotocollao sector, in the north, as well as the UTE university, also to the north.
To that university center he went Diana Guevara, 32 years old, for the reinforcement. She was six months old from the second injection which was on July 4, 2021.
The Government established that in the case of persons of 18 to 49 years they will be able to receive the third dose at six months of the complete scheme, that is, the two doses; while from the age of 50, at five months.
The University of the Americas (UDLA) It will be an inoculation point again from this weekend; It will only attend Saturdays and Sundays, between 08:00 and 16:00.
In some neighborhoods of the Quito’s Historic center, in vehicles it is peripheral that in Cot home, a Health sub-center that is in Loma Grande, is vaccinated against COVID-19, including Saturdays from 07:00 to 15:00. (I)
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