Campus Bicentenario is the headquarters for the vaccination process
On April 20, the Bicentennial Campus of the University of Azuay opened its doors to society and became a vaccination point against Covid-19 in coordination with the Ministry of Public Health.
For some months, meetings have been held with Julio Molina, Health Coordinator of zone 6, in which the University of Azuay made all its contingent, its personnel and its capacities available to the Ministry of Health to collaborate in the national health plan .
By then, it had already collaborated as a University through the donation of cabins for taking Covid-19 tests and equipment was delivered for the intensive care areas in the hospitals.
However, having become a vaccination point not only implies making the physical and technological infrastructure available to the public, in this case the Coliseum of the Bicentennial Campus, but also the involvement of students and professors of the Faculty of Medicine.
The UDA is the third university in the city to become the headquarters for the vaccination process. On the first day, 587 older adults were vaccinated and were receiving their second dose of the vaccine.
The vaccination process has several phases: the registration phase, the taking of vital signs, vaccination and observation. Undergraduate and graduate students from the University of Azuay are supporting the vaccination phase and are in charge of the vital signs and observation phases.
On the Bicentennial Campus there is an emergency area in case a secondary reaction occurs after vaccination and immediate medical assistance is provided. On this first day, everything flowed normally, without delay, and serving the elderly in the city in the best way possible.
Galo Duque, Dean of the UDA School of Medicine, commented: “There has been a very close and optimal link between the Ministry of Public Health and the University, which has allowed us to carry out this achievement that gives us satisfaction on the today".
For his part, Francisco Salgado, Rector of the UDA, mentioned: “We all have to get vaccinated when our turn comes, only in that way will we fight the pandemic and can we reactivate and recover; so that little by little we can return to our classes from elementary schools, high school and higher education and thus also reactivate the spirit of the family ”.
"The University of Azuay will always contribute so that we can actually comply with these stages, also giving the example of taking care of ourselves, taking care of the communities that take care of us, complying with the provisions that the authorities have given and supporting with our proposals to that we can reactivate education in the month of September ”, concluded Francisco Salgado.
UDA Correspondent
