Strategy of Covid-19 vaccination
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The success of the strategy was based on 4 fundamental axes :
1.-The staff training:
It was necessary to train specific teams of nurses, who were self-trained at the beginning of the whole process in the preparation of the vaccines, adverse reactions...
2.-The support of technological innovations for appointments (use of QR codes), for data recording and other tasks, providing vaccination with technological advances that have been key to systematising the process.
An example was the process used for communicating the vaccination appointments:
The citizens receive an SMS with a QR code and a link to the geolocation of the exact location of the vaccination.
3.- An organisation and logistics in which every detail was measured in order to organise a good delivery and registration of the doses.
The vaccines are delivered in an hermetic box. It is checked that all the vials that were requested for the population scheduled for that day have arrived.
In each box there are two data loggers. These were introduced in the computer as a USB and it showed a graph with temperatures to verify the vaccines.
4.-the transparency in the communication of all the data that contributed to involve the citizens.
Finally the strategy had to be changed to adapt it to the pediatric population in order to make this vaccine more attractive to them. The sanitary staff were dressed up as superheroes and made a metaphor, an association with the COVID vaccine, as if it gave them superpowers.
Resources needed
In each health areas (7 areas) there was a general coordinator.
Regarding recruitment and training of personnel, specific staff had to be recruited and trained for this process.
For the vaccination points, large areas such as congress and exhibition centres and health centres were used.
Evidence of success
In terms of the population aged 12 and over, who have a complete vaccination schedule, we have 95.5 coverage compared to 92.5 in Spain. Also 62.7 in the paediatric population compared to 41.3 in Spain.
We had more than 100 vacination points set up at the same time,including large areas and Health Centres. The maximum that was administered was more than 50,000 vaccines in one day and the vaccination points worked from Monday to Sunday, mornings and afternoons.
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