In coordination with the Mayor's Office of Uribia, the first one dose vaccines were transported to Alta Guajira.
The rural area of the municipality of Uribia, he received the first dowry of vaccines that require a single implemantación after a coordination conducted by the ministry of Health of the municipality and the Colombian Air Force, managing to transport an 8,000 shots from Uribia to the Nazareth Hospital, which is the point nearest health care to the communities Wayuu in the Guajira.
With the transport of these vaccines against COVID-19 it is sought to increase the percentage of vaccinated in the most remote areas of the country, facilitating a single displacement by families settled in this northern area to complete the only dose they require, which hopes to reduce the number of deaths in these areas, since by different traditions of the ethnic group most of the infected do not go to medical centers, losing their lives within their reserves.
In addition to the vaccines, a box of syringes was transported for implementation, an operation that will continue to support the Colombian Air Force to increase the number of Colombians vaccinated in rural areas of the country.
Source: press-Colombian Air Force
