Covid 19 Vaccination Plan begins mass phase closure process – Health

During the Unified Command Post (PMU) for attention against covid-19 that took place in Risaralda, the Minister of Health and Social Protection, Fernando Ruiz, stated that Starting next week, the massive closure phase of the National Vaccination Plan against covid-19 will begin.

This, with the aim of giving way to a model that allows immunizations to continue in harmony with the normal processes of the Expanded Immunization Plan (EPI). In other words, vaccinating against covid-19 will be part of the vaccination programs for other diseases.

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In other words, vaccinating against covid-19 will be part of the vaccination programs for other diseases.

“We come from a model where we adopted the processes that came from the PAI, but we adopted an operational structure where nearly 84 million vaccines against covid-19 have been applied. It is already necessary to move to an institutionalized phase where the covid-19 application operation is integrated into the regular vaccination program“, Held.

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We come from a model where we adopted the processes that came from the EPI, but we adopted an operational structure where nearly 84 million vaccines against covid-19 have been applied.

The portfolio manager mentioned that “this would not be another EPI vaccine, but rather an integrated vaccination process with the same resources as the regular program.”

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The minister explained that to begin with the closure of the National Vaccination Plan, it is necessary to count the doses sent, “we will send teams from the Ministry of Health with the Superintendency of Health to check how many were sent, how many are in the warehouses, how many were delivered to municipalities and are in the fridges, and how many are already applied. This will serve to validate the accounts, the verification of the counts”, he detailed.

On the other hand, a process will be carried out to upload the missing vaccines to PAIWEB, to proceed with the reconciliation of IPS accounts in what corresponds to advances generated as well as the closing of the legalization of the billing process and the payment of applied vaccines.

“This to achieve in the coming weeks to close the issue of accounts and have clarity on how many resources are needed to cover and do the respective thing”, emphasized the minister.

In this sense, Ruiz Gómez assured that work tables will be scheduled by territory, a pilot with Bogotá and, later, work with the different territorial entities.

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As can be seen, this process allows the continuity of vaccination against covid-19 under the premise that the pandemic is not over and that immunizations will continue but integrated “with the resources of regular vaccination programs”, that is, progressively. The vaccination posts arranged in the PNV will be closed, which will be done sequentially without affecting the objective demand, but acting, says the ministry, according to the needs without wasting resources.

Finally, the head of the Health portfolio pointed out the possibility of publishing comments on the Ministry of Health website about the care routes, which are very relevant. These are: RIAS for nutritional alterations, RIAS for mental risk and violence, RIAS for childhood cancer risk, RIAS for cardiovascular risk and RIAS for communicable infectious diseases.

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