Over 1,200 professionals vaccinated at Centro Hospitalar Lisboa Central
1,241 health professionals from the Centro Hospitalar Universitário de Lisboa Central (CHULC) were vaccinated on Sunday.
More than 1,200 professionals from the Centro Hospitalar Universitário de Lisboa Central (CHULC) were vaccinated on the first day of the national vaccination plan against Covid-19, according to an assessment made by this entity to Lusa.
According to the assessment made by CHULC, which covers the São José, Capuchos, Santa Marta, Dona Estefânia, Curry Cabral and Maternidade Alfredo da Costa hospitals, 1,241 health professionals were vaccinated on Sunday.
The vaccination process took place between 10.30 am and 9.30 pm in 16 posts created for this purpose at São José Hospital and Curry Cabral.
According to the same source, another 831 health professionals are scheduled to be vaccinated on Monday.
In a statement sent to Lusa, the president of CHULC, Rosa Matos, said that “the vaccination process went very smoothly, in real teamwork and delivery, from professionals to professionals.
“We have mobilised dozens of professionals for this plan which ends on Tuesday. This Sunday there was the largest volume of doses administered. It is an important day for the professionals who are doing their jobs,” she added.
Asked by journalists earlier this evening about any side effects by professionals who had received the vaccine, she reported some anxious reactions in São José, but noted that it was nothing significant.
“This is normal in some people. Nothing that needs to be mentioned because it was small things in one or two people,” she pointed out.
On Saturday, the first batch of 9,750 vaccines, developed by Pfizer-BioNTech, arrived in Portugal for health professionals at the university hospitals in Porto, São João, Coimbra, Lisboa Norte and Lisboa Central.
The first batch of vaccines will be reinforced with the delivery of a further 70,200 doses, scheduled to arrive on Monday, bringing the total available for administration by the end of the year to 79,950 vaccines, according to the Ministry of Health.
The Covid-19 pandemic has caused at least 1,758,026 deaths from over 80.2 million cases of infection worldwide, according to a review by the French agency AFP.
In Portugal, 6,619 people died out of 394,573 confirmed cases of infection, according to the most recent bulletin of the Directorate-General for Health.
