A 3 12 months previous boy in Nicosia on the centre of controversy, as Germany and Israel refused pressing coronary heart therapy as a result of his mother and father have been unvaccinated, was travelling by way of air ambulance to an Athens hospital at midday, for surgical procedure, following the vaccination of each mother and father.
The boy was being handled on the Makarion hospital in Nicosia.
Following the impasse that will show detrimental to the boy’s life, the well being ministry’s Director Common Christina Yiannaki initially reached settlement yesterday with a hospital in Israel that gave the inexperienced mild for the kid’s switch on Monday.
However which may have been too late, so authorities turned to Greece too, for an alternate, and the excellent news got here in early final evening because the ‘Mitera’ hospital accepted the boy for rapid switch in the present day.
Earlier efforts to airlift the three 12 months previous to the German medical centre the place the boy had undergone one other surgical procedure final July, failed, so the well being ministry turned elsewhere.
The boy’s mother and father obtained the Pfizer vaccine first dose on Thursday and it’ll take three weeks for the 2nd dose that can safe a covid vaccination certificates.
In remarks yesterday, the boy’s father Alexey Matveev, rejected claims that he and his spouse refused to vaccinate with the Johnson&Johnson one dose vaccine as had been recommended by Cypriot authorities, saying that they had obtained the Pfizer vaccine following a suggestion by the German medical centre.
‘I wasn’t conscious that international mother and father required vaccination in Germany for his or her kids to have an operation, in any other case I might have carried out it’, the daddy stated.
He expressed the view that it wasn’t logical for anybody to vaccinate in the event that they have been wholesome and additional denied that authorities in Cyprus had recommended the Johnson and Johnson.
Yesterday morning, Christina Yiannaki expressed concern over the kid’s well being, saying that the mother and father had been knowledgeable in time on the necessity for vaccination.
The boy shall be handled on the kids’s surgical procedure unit of the Mitera hospital in Athens, with the main surgeon being Yiorgos Sarris.