Vaccinated today 140 firefighters 13 corporations. The second dose will be in May. Inoculation of operators in Moura with “leftovers” from the Health Center generates controversy.
One hundred and forty of a total 290 13 fire departments in the district, began this morning to be vaccinated against vovid-19 by the health services of Hospital José Joaquim Fernandes (HJJF), in Beja. Corporations, with the exception of two from the municipality of Odemira, are included in the action area of the Baixo Alentejo Local Health Unit (ULSBA). other 150 operations will be vaccinated over the next week.
The process is marked by a decision by the ULSBA Board of Directors to withdraw from the vaccination process 28 elements of the total operational that the Fire Department of Moura was entitled to. The issue is that they have been vaccinated, last day 23 January, “With leftovers” from the local Health Center, such as Lidador Notícias (LN) revealed exclusively.
In the HJJF covid-19 vaccination sector, three rooms are prepared, which receives two people at a time and vaccines given to firefighters today are from AstraZeneca and each vial allows ten inoculations. Before firefighters start inoculation, a nurse explained the vaccination process, possible reactions and measures and medication to take in case of any allergic reaction.
João Godinho (to be vaccinated) and Pedro Ramos, of the Beja Volunteer Firefighters were the first two operatives to be inoculated and after receiving the vaccine, done the computer registration, learned that the second dose will only occur the next day 6 May.
“I feel good and more comfortable and protected to perform my duties. As a firefighter I consider it to be late, we should have been one of the first ”, told LN, João Godinho, already in the recovery room.
Designated by the group of commanders and duly authorized by the CDOS of Beja, Pedro Barahoana, Fire commander of Beja Volunteers (BVB), started by saying that vaccination “is the culmination of a process that started only last week among the Fire Brigades, CDOS and ULSBA management ”, adding that “we are happy, but not satisfied ”, justified.
Sem rebuço, Barahoana defied a list of criticisms, starting with the timing of the vaccination that “should have started two months ago” and the fact that “they only gave us vaccines for half the staff”, regretting that they “pushed the choice of our men towards us”, concluded.
The BVB commander recalled two details that he considered very important: “85% of the firefighters' work is related to the pre-hospital emergency and the transportation of patients and 90% INEM's work is done by corporations ”, finished. Pedro Barahoana ended with a question: how we accomplished all of this with fifty percent of the vaccinated herd ?
On the removal of the list of 28 elements of the Moura Volunteer Firefighters (BVM), because they have been vaccinated with “leftovers” from the city's Health Center, Conceição Margalha, president from ULSBA, revealed to LN that the decision regarding vaccines is not ULSBA's. “The institution receives the doses and administers them”, Explain.
Visibly aggravated, the commander of the BVMs, Carlos Incarnation, justified “to have a more correct assessment of the situation and what happened, I will speak to the CDOS command ”, finished.
LN found that out of all bottles, there were seven units left and the Fire Department commanders decided that they would be given to Moura.
Teixeira Correia
(journalist)
