Be the first to comment!Covid-19 vaccinations underway for Gozo General Hospital staff
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Felicienne Cini, a Senior Staff Nurse at the Gozo General Hospital Intensive Care Unit, was the first person to receive the Covid-19 vaccine in Gozo.
Present for the occasion this morning. were Prime Minister Robert Abela, Health Minister Chris Fearne and Minister for Gozo Clint Camilleri.Vaccinations for Covid-19 are now underway at the Gozo General Hospital, with the Central Procurement and Supplies Unit (CPSU) confirming that they are keeping to the schedule, saying, the “third day of vaccination and today we have also started vaccinations in Gozo.”
The country is expected to receive another 6,000 doses of the Pfizer vaccine over the coming weeks, Dr Fearne said on Sunday.
Yesterday, doctors urged the government to be efficient to keep up with the demand,” saying that it needed to “ramp up the vaccination rates significantly.”
The schedule announced last week, said that for today vaccinations would take place on staff at the Gozo General Hospital.
Staff at at Mount Carmel, St Thomas, Boffa, and the Good Samaritan Long-Term Care Facility, will be receiving it on the 30th.
Vaccination of staff and residents in St. Vincent de Paul and later staff and residents in other nursing homes will begin on the 1st of January, and the first letters will be sent to medical professionals. doctors working in the private sector.
The first letters are expected to be sent to those over the age of 85 living in the community on the 7th of January.
The public are being requested to honour the appointment that has been given. Everyone who attends must take their letter and ID card with them.
The freephone number 145 has also been launched. This serves as an information number for those who have questions, or for another appointment should they not be able to attend the one allocated to them for the vaccine.
The Health Authorities advised that the vaccine is free of charge and is not mandatory. While the public are encouraged to have it, anyone not intending to take the vaccine should please call 145 to have their dose assigned to others.
Photo: Top – Robert Abela social mediea and below – CPSU
