The manager of the Andalusian Health Service (SAS), Diego Vargas, has congratulated the Andalusian population on Thursday for the sensitization you have had with the flu vaccination”, which has surpassed the 70% of the target population, and thanks to it Andalusia “is 200 points below incidence” of the gripe compared to «other regions. Vargas stressed, in an act at the Reina Sofía hospital in Córdoba, that last year in Andalusia was already “historic in flu vaccination, but it is that” this year we have already exceeded the coverage of the previous year. The manager of the SAS has stated that “a new milestone” has been added to this, which has influenced the lower incidence in hospitals due to this virus, and has been childhood vaccination against influenza. “The For the first time that children have been vaccinated against influenza, coverage of more than 43% has been achieved. In the measurement of the phases of high frequency in Andalusia, which goes from zero to three, it turns out that “most Andalusian hospitals are in phase zero. In fact, we are already in a phase of stagnation of this peak of high attendance », he added.
To this we must add that, “thanks to the professionals and the management of the teams”, with regard to “the high frequency of emergency services in Andalusia” it can be said that “there have not been any care problems”, since “there have not been there has been an accumulation of patients”, with which “we have not had unfortunate images” like those that have occurred “in other autonomous communities”, Diego Vargas has highlighted.
What’s more, now “we are at very acceptable care levels for what is the time of high attendance in which we find ourselves”, all of which has led to “Andalusia being 200 points below incidence than the rest of the communities autonomous”, trusting the manager of the SAS that now the “phase of stabilization and decrease of what is the high frequency in Andalusia” begins.
Coronavirus situation in Córdoba
Regarding the covid, the head of Reina Sofía’s Pulmonology, Franciso Santos, has specified that there is currently only one hospitalized in his unit, of the three in total that currently exist in the entire province due to the pandemic, and has stated that the Current hospitalizations for this virus mainly affect chronic or cancer patients.
