Given the increase in patients with symptoms related to the virus in the capital of El Oro, 11 vaccination points were activated.
Machala
Of the 892 antigen tests for COVID-19 that were carried out in Machala between Monday and Wednesday of this week, 382 yielded a positive result, that is, more than 47% of the total number of people who went to the points activated by the Ministry of Public Health (MSP).
Given the increase in patients with symptoms related to the virus in the capital of El Oro, eleven vaccination points were activated.
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“Together with other public institutions, such as the mayor’s office and the government, we managed to increase the vaccination points. The antigen test is not done on demand, the patient must have symptoms to do it, ”said Priscila Hurtado, director of the Machala Health District.
An average of two thousand people are vaccinated daily. A large percentage of users do not have any doses, he said.
Most patients have mild symptoms and treatment is outpatient. “That is, a considerable group does not require hospitalization, but we are concerned that within the family nucleus there are two to four infected people,” said Robinson Jaramillo, epidemiologist from the Machala Health District.
Between Saturday and Sunday, two vaccination points will be set up at the Machala Terrestrial Terminal and the World Banana Fair.
In the Machala hospitals, of the Ecuadorian Social Security Institute (IESS), and Teófilo Dávila (of the MSP) the occupancy of beds ranges between 70% and 80%.
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In addition, the demand for IESS affiliates who sought to take the test to rule out or confirm contagion increased.
According to the figures from the Health portfolio, 92% of the population of Machala has the first dose of the COVID-19 vaccine and more than 80% with the second dose. (I)
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