- Mobile Classrooms will be used to reach populations in areas difficult to access to carry out the vaccination process, take samples of various pathologies and raise awareness about self-care.
- These Mobile Classrooms are a unique strategy in the country to maximize the reach of pandemic mitigation and promote economic reactivation. This purpose is achieved through the articulation between business, academia, and the State.
With the purpose of supporting and facilitating the logistics tasks for the arrival of vaccines to communities in areas of difficult access, ISA made a donation of COP 1 billion to Universidad Nacional de Colombia Medellín Campus so that, through its Genomic Laboratory One Health, it can administer the resources and set up two Mobile Classrooms: buses equipped with specialized equipment and health personnel that will arrive at remote territories to facilitate the logistics process of vaccine distribution according to the provisions of the departmental governments.
The Mobile Classrooms, which will initially visit 16 municipalities of Antioquia starting on Monday, October 25, will carry out the vaccination process with the biologicals provided by the Governor’s Office of this department, and will also be a space for taking samples to determine the health status of the regions with respect to infectious diseases and raise awareness about self-care.
“This initiative is a continuation of our Todos Somos Uno program, through which we have contributed resources of more than USD 5 million in Latin America to improve hospital capacity, promote scientific developments and support communities in their most urgent needs.” Now, with these Mobile Classrooms, we hope to facilitate the arrival of more than 26,000 doses of vaccines against COVID-19 in Antioquia to populations in areas of difficult access, and soon to reach other departments with vaccination, sampling, and awareness-raising activities,” said María Adelaida Correa, ISA’s Corporate Director of Sustainability.
In addition to the two land-based Mobile Classrooms in the southwest of Antioquia, efforts are being made to reach Urabá Antioqueño and La Guajira, while at the same time progress is being made in the management of Air Mobile Classrooms that, with helicopters, will reach territories that are difficult to access, such as the Sierra Nevada de Santa Marta. All of the above in permanent coordination with the Ministry of Health, the National Health Institute and the departmental governments.
The Governor of Antioquia, Aníbal Gaviria, said: “I invite people of Antioquia to use these spaces such as the mobile units, the more people in Antioquia that get vaccinated, the more we will have two immense results, protection, defense and care of those lives and the lives that surround them and also the aspect of economic reactivation, and to avoid the slowdown in the progress of the reactivation that is in everyone’s interest.”.
These Mobile Classrooms are a unique strategy to work in an articulated manner between the company, academia, and the State to maximize the scope of pandemic mitigation and promote economic reactivation in the face of the company’s commitment to the generation of Sustainable Value for the communities in its areas of influence and for society in general.
Municipalities to be visited by the Mobile Classrooms in Antioquia:
The municipalities scheduled to be visited by the Mobile Classrooms and the estimated doses to be administered in each of them are shown below:
- Jardín: 960.
- Andes: 1,920.
- Hispania: 960.
- Betania: 1,440.
- Ciudad Bolívar: 1,920.
- Salgar: 1,440.
- Concordia: 1,920.
- Betulia: 1,440.
- Urrao: 1,920.
- Caicedo: 960.
- Anzá: 1,440.
- Venecia: 1,920.
- Fredonia: 1,440.
- Santa Bárbara: 1,920.
- Abejorral: 1,920.
- Ituango. 2,880.
