People in the
United Arab Emirates have shown their trust in vaccines approved by the UAE
authorities last year in December. They have line up to get vaccine shots by
booking the slots in advance.
The healthcare
facilities that have been selected to offer Covid-19 vaccination services are
booked for the whole week. Even spots on waiting lists are only available after
a week. Apart from this, medical centres are also booked till March.
There is a surge
of people looking to get vaccinated in the UAE and this is after authorities
have run several campaigns promoting the vaccination drive and also awaring
people about the safety and efficacy of both the vaccines--Sinopharm’s
inactivated vaccine and Pfizer-- that are approved in the emirati nation.
A report in the
National revealed that call centres, which were supposed to handle enquiries
regarding the vaccination procedure and bookings, have been receiving hundreds
of requests on a daily basis. Most of these calls are seeking online links for
registration.
Despite the
surge, government run vaccination centres are welcoming people and asking them
to get their shots for vaccines as fast as possible. The Sinopharm vaccine has
been designated as the national vaccine and is available for free of cost
across the country in healthcare centres, majlis and other private clinics.
This was further
confirmed in the report by a leading daily, which said that after contacting
several private health centres it was found that slts were booked till January
20 while for others, there was no slot till March.
The medical
director at Bareen International Hospital in Mohamed bin Zayed City, Dr Ramzi
Alshaiba, said that the demand for vaccines saw a surge last month. He added,
“When we started the vaccination programme on December 13 at Bareen, we were
only seeing 100 to 200 patients per day, on average.”
He further said that in the last two days, the staff
from the hospital managed to administer vaccines to as many as 1,200 people on
a per day basis. The hospital is controlling the population, which has come to
get vaccinated, by installing a tent outside the hospital. This is where all
the people line-up.
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