Mayabeque, Cuba: The population intervention with the vaccine candidate Abdala will begin in May in Mayabeque, hence this April 26, the first of a group of virtual conferences included in the Anticovid Vaccination Workshop, conceived by the Public Health Ministry, was held in Jaruco.
Good practices, informed consent and adverse events were the issues that captured the attention of Dr. Dianelis Valdés and the Immunization Program Advisor in the municipality, Ms. Sibil Misas Vega, the main facilitators of the upcoming vaccination process and will benefit Public Health workers in the first moment.
The director of the Comprehensive Teaching Polyclinic Noelio Capote, Dr. Tania Padrón and the Deputy Director of Medical Assistance, Dr. Yailín Castro, among other specialists in Epidemiology, Nursing and professionals with experience in vaccination and clinical trials participate in the training sessions.
They have the mission of transmitting this knowledge to the personnel who will be directly involved in immunization and to the fifth and sixth year medical students called to support the process.
Jaruco, thus writes a new chapter of public health by opening the doors to a Cuban product in the final phase of a clinical trial that will allow, in the short term, to protect the population from the new coronavirus.
Jaruco health workers add their effort to that of the scientists who developed the anti-covid immunogen Abdala, applied, smoothly, in other territories of eastern Cuba and in areas of the Cuban capital.
