Vaccination starts at the Central Vaccination Center of the Central Medical Center
Inoculation of 300 workers in the Corona 19 treatment hospital
Director Ki-Hyun Jung “It seems that 7 people can be inoculated per vial.”
On the morning of the 27th, Mihwawon Chung, the facility team of the National Medical Center, is vaccinated at the Central Vaccination Center at the National Medical Center in Euljiro, Jung-gu, Seoul.
[아시아경제 이춘희 기자] “I wish I was more comfortable and really got all (vaccine)” (Mihwawon, Facility Team, National Medical Center)
Following the AstraZeneca Corona 19 vaccine on the 26th and the Pfizer vaccine on the 27th, the corona19 vaccination began in earnest, and it began to take steps to recover to daily life.
On the 27th, the first Pfizer vaccination in Korea began at the Central Vaccination Center at the National Medical Center in Seoul. With the volume introduced through the International Vaccine Supply Organization (COVAX), the first vaccination will be performed for about 54,500 workers in the Corona 19 treatment hospital. On this day, a total of 300 people, including 199 workers at the Central Medical Center and 101 workers at the treatment hospital for COVID-19 patients in the metropolitan area, will be vaccinated.
![On the morning of the 27th, COVID-19 medical workers who received the Corona 19 Pfizer vaccine are waiting in the observation room at the Central Vaccination Center of the National Medical Center in Jung-gu, Seoul. [이미지출처=연합뉴스]](https://i0.wp.com/cphoto.asiae.co.kr/listimglink/1/2021022712255098139_1614396349.jpg?w=560&ssl=1)
On the morning of the 27th, COVID-19 medical workers who received the Corona 19 Pfizer vaccine are waiting in the observation room at the Central Vaccination Center of the National Medical Center in Jung-gu, Seoul. [이미지출처=연합뉴스]
The person who received the first vaccination at 9:4 am on this day was Mi-kyung Jeong, 50, who works in the corona 19 confirmed patient ward at the Central Medical Center’s facility team. Mr. Jeong said, “I thought it was an honor to be the first time I came to the National Medical Center,” and “I thought I should work harder for our hospital.”
Joanna, a 36-year-old nurse in the infection intensive care unit of the Central Medical Center, who gave the vaccination that day, said, “I feel more reassured after being hit. Nurse Son Hong-seok, 28, said, “It was nervous, but it’s just right, so it’s no different from an influenza vaccine.”
Myung-don Oh, head of the Central Vaccination Center, explained, “Temperature is the most important in the Pfizer vaccine management process.” He emphasized that “the vaccine that I can fit in my order is the best vaccine” regarding the recent growing anxiety about the efficacy and safety of the AstraZeneca vaccine. did.
Pfizer vaccine A total of 2 vaccinations are required. In the case of Corona 19 treatment hospital workers, the first vaccination will be completed by the 20th of next month and the second vaccination will be completed by April 10th.
Prime Minister Jeong Sye-gyun visits the Central Vaccination Center at the National Medical Center in Euljiro, Jung-gu, Seoul on the morning of the 27th, and is talking with the officials while receiving a status report.
Prime Minister Jeong Sye-gyun attended the vaccination site on that day to observe Pfizer vaccination. Prime Minister Jung talked with Mr. Jung, the No. 1 vaccinator, two nurses working in the COVID-19 intensive care unit, and one doctor who directly treats COVID-19 patients, and received a report on the progress of vaccination at the Central Vaccination Center.
Prime Minister Jung said, “With the corona 19 vaccination that started from yesterday, the journey toward the daily recovery that the whole people longed for was taking the first step.” I will not let go of tension until the end so that you can do it.”
At this meeting, the Central Medical Center also announced plans to verify a plan to expand the number of inoculations using a special’low dead space (LDS)’ developed by domestic companies through vaccination on the same day.
According to the Agency for Disease Control and Prevention, a single dose of Pfizer vaccine is 0.3 cc, which contains 6 doses per vial. If you use a regular syringe, it is difficult to extract only 5 times, so you need to use an LDS syringe to extract 6 times.
However, on that day, Jung Ki-hyun, the head of the Central Medical Center, explained to Prime Minister Chung the number of vaccinations per bottle of Pfizer, saying, “The syringe is good and the nurse’s skill is so good that further results can be produced.” It announced a plan that it would be possible.
Defrosting the frozen Pfizer vaccine yields about 0.45㏄, and if you mix 1.8㏄ with physiological saline, a total of 2.2㏄ comes out, and if you extract 0.3㏄ each, you can get 7 servings. The number of people who can be inoculated will increase by about 16.7%, and if it succeeds in increasing the number of people inoculated per vial to 7, it will be the first case in the world.
Meanwhile, the AstraZeneca Corona 19 vaccine, which started the day before, has been vaccinated by 18,489 people nationwide as of 0 o’clock on the 27th. A total of 5,803 nursing hospitals and facilities nationwide, mental care and rehabilitation facilities, hospitalized, residents and workers under the age of 65, 280,980 people are eligible for the first priority vaccination. On the first day, 6.39% of them completed the vaccination.
Reporter Lee Chun-hee [email protected]