More of 22,200 Gipuzkoans now have an appointment to get vaccinated against flu and covid this campaign, which started yesterday in the health centers of Euskadi. Specifically, as of yesterday, the first day of vaccination, a total of 22,270 patients in the territory had been scheduled, and 80,000 in the BAC as a whole, of which 1,500 were children between six months and five years old than this campaign. for the first time they have been included in the preferential groups to receive the anti-flu dose.
In an interview on Onda Vasca, the Minister of Health, Gotzone Sagardui, recalled that last year 538,966 vaccines were supplied, so she was satisfied with the pace of appointments scheduled at this start: “We are doing well, taking into account that we are still in a first week of appointment and we must add the vaccination processes that we are already carrying out among health and social health professionals and in the residences as a whole, which also represent a significant volume.
Osakidetza is offering the population vaccines against flu and Covid-19 simultaneously, beginning its administration with the groups most at risk of suffering complications and with people over 60 years of age. The rest of the population that wishes to be vaccinated can request an appointment from October 30 to be inoculated from November 6.
The vaccination campaign began on September 25 for people who live in nursing homes and as of yesterday, people in residences, people over 60 years of age, those who have chronic illnesses or are immunocompromised, pregnant women and professionals in the field began to be vaccinated simultaneously. health and social health, while children from six months to five years old will also be able to receive the flu vaccination.
Sagardui asked the Basque population to, as they have done until now, “continue to be faithful to the Osakidetza offer”, since “the best way to deal with a disease with such easy transmission as that of the “flu and also covid-19, which has not disappeared, is preparing our body.” As the Health Minister explained, “preparing our body means alerting our defenses and we do this through vaccines, which, in addition, have shown that they are not only effective but also safe.”
In the initial phase that started yesterday, people over 80 years of age are being prioritized, who will receive a personal telephone call from Osakidetza or the BetiOn service, and if they require it, they will receive the vaccine at their own home.
For the third year, in collaboration with Osalan, Osakidetza also offers companies and institutions the possibility, through its prevention services, of vaccinating employees.
From 6 to 59 months
Childhood vaccination is one of the milestones of this campaign. In the Basque Country, nearly 65,000 boys and girls will be invited to be vaccinated, including more than 22,000 Gipuzkoans. In the Spanish State as a whole there are 1.6 million. From 6 to 59 months.
Vaccination will be voluntary, as usual, but has the endorsement of the Spanish Association of Pediatrics (CAV-AEV). And on the first day there were 1,500 boys and girls who were scheduled for their injection.
Those between two and five years old will receive the intranasal vaccine; and intramuscular for the youngest, between 6 and 23 months, while those under six months will not be called upon to be vaccinated.
Communities such as Andalusia, Galicia and Murcia already carried out flu vaccination in that age cohort last campaign with coverage of 50% and medical sources assure that the objective this year would be to achieve between 55% and 60% average response.
As pediatrician Pedro Gorrotxategi acknowledged to this newspaper a few weeks ago, vaccinating more than half of all children in that group could bring important health benefits in containing the virus in the general population, since it has been proven, he said, that “Children are great transmitters of the virus and, from experiences in Japan, for example, it has been seen that vaccinating them has prevented a lot of adult contagion.”
Gorrotxategi believes that vaccinating minors against the flu is “positive” and “advisable.” Previously, only at-risk children, with underlying pathologies or those who lived with at-risk relatives were vaccinated.
Keys
What people are part of the risk groups? Residents, people over 60 years of age, people with chronic diseases or immunocompromised, pregnant women and professionals in the health and social health field. How to request an appointment? If you belong to the risk group: you can make an appointment now through the Osakidetza website or by calling your health center, to get vaccinated starting October 9. If you do not belong to the risk group: wait until October 30, the date on which you can request through the website or by calling your health center starting November 6. Telephone number for questions: In case If you have any questions about vaccination, Osakidetza has enabled the CAU (User Service Center) telephone number: 900 203 050.
2023-10-10 05:44:49
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