According to local authorities, there are about 24,000 students. At the moment, in 3 of 20 institutions progressive assistance is applied to the classrooms.
Benjamin Zamora, 5 years 2 months old, received the first dose against the coronavirus in the Sucre Municipal Educational Unit, in the center of Quito, this Thursday.
Luis Zamora, his father, said that arrived at 07:00 and the process unfolded quickly.
Had to present the up-to-date card with all vaccinations which was reviewed by personnel from the Ministry of Public Health (MSP). In addition, provide informed consent.
Consider that It is important inoculate children to return to normal.
Benjamin follows the classes of first of basic education through a digital platform.
Zamora agrees that he physically return to the institution once his son completes the vaccination schedule. “I think that it is not the same to be studying the virtual like being inside a classroom, ”he said.
The child was vaccinated with Sinovac and in 28 days he must return for the second vaccination.
The infants and their parents were located in the entrance patio to the establishment. Then they went up to the first floor where there were four inoculation brigades of two people, one who entered the information and the other placed the vaccine, distributed in different classrooms.
The waiting for the vaccine it was about 15 minutes.
“(With) children it is a little more complicated, they are more shy”Said Dayana Dávila, from the Quito Municipality Health Secretariat.
At the national level, vaccination of children from 5 to 11 years It started on October 18. In Quito, he started at the Oswaldo Lombeyda Educational Unit.
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Some of the kids they showed reluctant to be vaccinated; others they cried; some hugged their parents while several they looked for another side when the syringe was loaded with the liquid or to avoid seeing the needle.
The adverse reactions that could occur are general malaise, temperature, before which paracetamol, cold water baths or compresses would be administered at the vaccination site.
After completing the vaccination against the coronavirus, at the beginning of the following year, most municipal educational institutions would return to the classrooms in person, municipal authorities indicated.
“The proposal is that they can now return to a level of their face-to-face education since January 2022 and the idea is that all vaccinated children return, and also with a program that we are already beginning to implement, which would also be that they also return with a check-up. general health condition, “he said. Francisco Viteri, Secretary of Health of the Municipality of Quito.
For the vaccination days, the official explained that the council provides the inoculation brigades and logistics, while the MSP provides vaccines and technical support. Between both entities, times and places are defined to be points.
The municipal student population under 12 years of age is about 8,200 children, of them, about 4,000 have already been vaccinated and the remaining 50% (4,000) would finish in eight days.
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According to the Quito council, in the Metropolitan District of Quito there are 20 educational establishments Township. The student population is estimated to be about 24,000 students.
Luis Calle, Secretary of Education, indicated that there are currently three educational entities in which progressive assistance is being implemented.
For those who have not been vaccinated there will be mobile brigadesannounced Viteri.
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