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Covid-19: This is how people over 80 will be vaccinated in Madrid
Those over 80 years old who reside in their homes have begun this Thursday to parade through the 262 health centers in the region to receive the first dose of the long-awaited
vaccine against Covid-19
.
The day, controversial since the beginning, since it has been organized in just 48 hours, has started in some of the centers
with more complaints than joys
on the part of users.
At the gates of
the Mar Baltic health center
, in Hortaleza, before 3.30 p.m., the scheduled start time, there were already thirty people, including the elderly and their companions, waiting to be called due to the impossibility of waiting inside the center.
"It is a shame that we are waiting in the street, I am 95 years old,"
said Emiliana angrily, leaning on her cane, which had arrived at the indicated time, as she commented.
She was not the only nonageneria who waited
at least an hour and stood upright
to receive the first dose of the Pfizer vaccine at this center.
Other older people, with more luck, could be
seated in the cars of their relatives
, and some even took up positions in the pharmacy that lies opposite, waiting for their turn.
"There is very bad foresight here.
They have to anticipate that these people are very old
. And what can happen is that some of us are infected here," reported Pilar, who had come to accompany her mother.
As one and the other commented aloud, the day before, by telephone, they had been instructed from the center to arrive 10 minutes before the appointment.
José, 92, leaning on one of the columns at the entrance of the health center, had been warned this morning that
"if he was late, they would not vaccinate him"
, so he had even come an hour before.
A nurse vaccinates a major, at CS Andrés Mellado.JAVIER BARBANCHO
That, coupled with the fact that in the extensive list that the nurses carried,
six elderly people
appeared
at the same time with only five minutes of difference
with respect to the following, created chaos.
[The Community of Madrid's forecast is to inoculate 15,000 elderly people every day for the next few weeks.]
Only an hour after the start of the vaccination, the accumulation of people at the gates almost doubled and
the safety distance was conspicuous by its absence
.
"Sir, please separate," a young woman was heard saying to another companion.
Given the complaints about the wait, the center set up a couple of benches in the space between the two glazed doors of the entrance for six grandparents, who remained
seated, side by side
, until they were called.
Although that was not the only criticism that was heard at the Baltic Sea health center.
"We are fed up with the injustices.
There are people who have been vaccinated and should not have the 100 years cite them today,
" reluctantly snapped a middle-aged woman to the journalist after asking her if they celebrated the arrival of this day.
Regardless of the controversy, most of the elderly expressed their joy for the vaccine, such as Teodoro, a former history teacher and arduous reader at 97 years old.
"He is very happy.
Yesterday he even asked me for a wine to celebrate,
" said his daughter Mercedes, who explained that despite her advanced age she is very informed and had asked him what vaccine they were going to give him because he did not want the AstraZeneca vaccine.
"Now we can go to the disco"
, joked at the doors Isabel, 94, who had gone to the health center with her husband, José María, 90. Both, with an enviable state of health at first glance, waited for the He vaccinates so that he can see his grandson up close again, whom they see with his tablet on Skype every week.
Also Tina, 84, was thinking about seeing hers.
"I have young granddaughters and I am looking forward to giving them a hug,
" he said after leaving with his dose.
"It was nothing, just a puncture," he said, downplaying the vaccine.
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