Almost four out of ten vaccines that have been applied in Colombia have not been reported on Paiweb, which translates into more than 30 million doses. Uploading the reports to that platform is key so that the IPS receive payment for each injection they provide and so that citizens can consult their digital vaccination card on the portal of My Vaccine.
This is the reason why there are complaints from people for whom the certificate still does not show the correct number of the doses that have been applied to date.
“We have shown that there is a significant number of applied vaccines that have probably not been reported,” said the Minister of Health, Ferdinand Ruiz, during the Unified Command Post that chaired that portfolio this Friday.
This newspaper was able to confirm that the lag in the reported doses amounts to 38% of the total that have been applied, which translates into 30,892,802 doses that have not yet been uploaded to the platform of the Paiweb.
There are some Territorial Entities that have millions of vaccines not applied. According to official data, in Antioquia there are more than 5 million doses that have not yet been reported on Paiweb, in Bogotá there are more than 3.9 million, in Cundinamarca more than 3 million and in Valle del Cauca around 2.3 millions.
For this reason, a massive data upload strategy is being implemented at the national level and it is expected that they will be updated between now and April 30, which will allow payments to IPS to proceed. “This exercise is going a bit slowly, few departments have started it and we hope that it will progress as quickly as possible to have the most adjusted number of vaccines,” said Minister Ruiz.
Indeed, only 14% of the IPS in the country have started with this massive load, which is why the Ministry of Health is insisting that local authorities promote this process.
In addition, they were asked to review the doses applied that are not even entering the anticovid vaccination reports that are delivered daily.
Comprehensive surveillance
Despite the fact that infections and deaths from covid-19 remained low, the Ministry of Health indicated that rigorous epidemiological surveillance must be maintained in the face of the danger of new peaks.
“We cannot say that a regrowth will not happen or that we will not have the entry of any of the sublineages (of the omicron variant),” said Claudia Cuéllar, director of Epidemiology and Demography of the Ministry of Health.
