Vaccinations, it’s chaos Chapter San Matteo ko – breaking latest news

SALERNO. Hundreds of people abandoned under a makeshift roof in a desolate parking lot waiting their turn; and then the race to find a place to sit on the ground in the shade of the electrical cabin or of your own car. Without water, without a way to be restaurants. Nothing at all. Scenes of ordinary disorganization yesterday at the Capitolo San Matteo vaccination center, on the outskirts of Salerno. The vaccines that ended early in the morning created an impasse that sent people waiting on a rampage. Only the intervention of several police patrols prevented anyone from passing to the streets in fact, with the health personnel trying to do everything possible to deal with a situation that became incandescent and not only because of the sun beating down hard and the suffocating heat.
Line up in the reservations chaos. Among the people lined up for the second dose yesterday was the Salerno journalist Daniela Apolito: «I was booked for 10 but there were people who had to be given the vaccine at 12 and had the booking number before mine. At 9.25 in fact, I was number 171. How is it possible? ». And she adds: «I entered at 13.45, wet with sweat and tired from having been on my feet for over four hours, with suffocating heat and tensions between the waiting people. When they called the numbers of the vaccinees, nothing could be heard, as the loudspeaker was very far from the waiting area. I pointed this out, but the employee replied: “I feel”. What was I supposed to do when faced with such an answer? ‘ The journalist underlines: “An intolerable disorganization: that vaccination point, as it is, just doesn’t work.”
The “Chapter” opened. In fact, the Chapter of St. Matthew had to perform a support function and instead ended up taking on a huge job in a place inappropriate to handle such a situation. Already at its debut the same organizational deficiencies found yesterday had emerged: in about a month nothing was done to remedy. The Municipality could equip makeshift benches, bring some chairs, but nothing was done. The justifications appear superfluous. It is true that there is talk of removing that vaccination point, but in the meantime is it possible that people have to wait sitting on the ground fighting for the shadow of an electrical substation? It also affects the dignity of those who organized the vaccination system by creating different points of inoculation of the doses just to be close to the population. A system with peaks of excellence, as in Corbara or at Uosm in Salerno, where people await sessions with air conditioning and background music. The San Matteo Chapter therefore remains an open wound that risks obscuring an excellent work that has led to vaccinating about 64% of the vaccinable population in the city.
The availability of vaccines. The causes of the inconvenience that occurred yesterday were linked to the number of vaccines available at the time and to the crafty ones who show up before the time of the convocation by flooding the vaccination machine, given that booking numbers are distributed even to those who are hours ahead of the fixed shift. The problem that will arise in the next few days will be linked to the slowdown of the vaccination campaign in general, due to the lack of doses and the lack of registration of many people in the regional platform. About 60,000 doses arrived yesterday between Pfizer and Moderna. These, like those that will arrive in the coming weeks, will be dedicated primarily to second administrations. Currently to be vaccinated on the platform there are less than 50 thousand subscribers that can be completed within this week. And the other 200 thousand residents in the province of Salerno who are not registered on the platform? An awareness campaign is needed for them.
The alert variants. Worrying are the outbreaks of variants in many regions and for this reason the president of the council of ministers Mario Draghi urged yesterday to “proceed with the vaccination campaign with maximum intensity”. A necessary acceleration is that on vaccines because, despite the data indicate that they protect against severe forms of Covid-19 and avoid deaths, they are unable to curb infections. The coronavirus therefore continues to circulate, increasing the likelihood of further mutations. And it is Campania, at the moment, that has the largest number of cases of the Delta variant in Italy, with 83 in the Vesuvian and 44 in Torre del Greco.
Salvatore De Napoli
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