Alberto Rubio
The president of HM Hospitals, Juan Abarca, stressed yesterday, during the celebration in the auditorium of the SEGIB of the day ‘Latin America: Diplomatic Relations Post Covid”, that currently the main objective in the fight against the pandemic should be “that all countries have adequate logistics to receive vaccines”.
Without such logistics, it will not be possible to consider the pandemic to be definitively under control, since there would be no point in distributing vaccines that cannot reach their destination or cannot be properly stored and used, he explained.
Abarca said that at the moment the greatest danger in the fight against the pandemic is “the loss of immunity“, as the extent of the effectiveness of the vaccines is still unknown.
For this reason, the doctor assured that “we cannot fall into triumphalism” and called for prudence, after justifying the possibility of administering a third booster dose of the vaccines.
Before an audience in which most of the Latin American embassies were represented, the president of HM Hospitales nevertheless opened a window of hope, assuring that “we have gone from trying to control the disease to trying to control the virus“, which he considered a positive step forward, “as we have moved ahead in the battle”.
On the other hand, he warned about this year’s flu because vaccines are always developed on the previous year’s strain, and therefore “we have to be cautious because we do not know how it will come”.
The conference, organised by HM Hospitales in collaboration with the Embassy of Brazil and the Instituto de Estudios Históricos Bances y Valdés, also reviewed the response that each Latin American country gave to the crisis of the coronavirus. In this regard, the counselor of the Bances y Valdés Institute, Alfredo Leonard, highlighted the important work of assistance provided by the embassies accredited in Spain.
