DRUG JOURNAL | 11/14/2022 – 11:42
More than 500 pharmacists from all over Spain attended the training seminar today What do we need to know about the current flu vaccination campaign?; organized by General Council of Colleges of Pharmacists to offer the latest news and the role played by pharmacists and pharmacists in this new vaccination campaign.
The seminar, presented by Raquel Varas, Pharmacist of the Health Campaigns Area of the General Council of Pharmacists, was attended by Soledad Cañellas, of the General Directorate of Public Health of the Community of Madrid and Rosario Cáceres, pharmacist at the Drug Information Center del College of Pharmacists of Seville and vowel in Spanish Vaccination Association and was organized with the collaboration of AstraZeneca.
Rosario Cáceres listed the vaccines available in local pharmacies, as well as the protocol for their correct dispensing according to the recommendations of the Forum of Pharmaceutical care at the Municipal Pharmacy. As regards the groups at risk, Cáceres highlighted the characteristics and dangers of not vaccinating the elderly and children. In the latter case, you mentioned that preschool and school-age children are the main disseminators of complaint as they have a much higher and longer-lasting viral load and are less careful in controlling coughs and secretions. For all these reasons, he pointed out, “it has been demonstrated that vaccinating healthy children interrupts the transmission chain and indirectly protects other members of the community, including the most vulnerable, such as the elderly, the immunosuppressed and children under 6 months”. .
Soledad Cañellas, specialist in Preventive Medicine and Public Health and Senior Technician in Public Health in the Community of Madrid, reviewed in her presentation the strategies and indications for flu vaccination, always defined with the aim of reducing the mortality and influenza-associated morbidity and the impact of the disease in the community. Cañellas, concluded his speech by emphasizing that vaccines continue to be the best tool for prevention against the flu; that registration, monitoring and evaluation are essential and that continued efforts to increase immunization coverage are essential. Furthermore, he insisted that the population must be trained and made aware of the need to be vaccinated and, for this reason, it is essential to strengthen the commitment of all health personnel in contact with the population.
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