The General Directorate of Public Health of the Ministry of Health activates protection against flu, covid and synticial viruses, the latter causing bronchiolite in the little ones. Protection against synticial is a novelty in the children’s vaccination calendar in Galicia, the first in the world to initiate this preventive act.
In the case of Ferrol Health Area, next Monday, September 25, As part of the flu and Covid campaign that ends on December 31, joint vaccination of both viruses will be offered in social health centers. This is the first step of a campaign that will be carried out at different vaccination points and, as in previous campaigns, it will be sequential to favor the prioritization of the groups most at risk. It will begin at the Caranza social and health center, as was done when the Covid vaccine arrived. It is estimated that in the first three weeks of the campaign, 1,500 people from the Ferrol area will be protected in this social and health area.
As indicated by the health department of the Xunta de Galicia, there are two types of flu vaccines. A tetravalent one for the entire population under 80 years of age, and another high load for people aged 80 and over and for users of nursing homes aged 60 or over. There is also a new vaccine against covid-19 adapted to the circulating strains. The next big steps in the Area will be those immobilized at home, starting October 9; risk or immunosuppressed groups and those over 80 years of age, starting October 16; and the rest of the population targeted by the campaign, over 60 years of age and flu risk groups, starting on October 26, at the FIMO exhibition center. You will be informed of the different steps, and, in most cases, the call will be proactive with a direct appointment or from an SMS.
VACCINATION AGAINST SINTITIAL VIRUS
In parallel, the application of the doses of the monoclonal antibody (nirsevimab) for the Respiratory Syncytial Virus (RSV) will also begin on the afternoon of this coming Monday the 25th. The president of the Xunta de Galicia, Alfonso Rueda, has already announced that Galicia will be a pioneer in protecting children against this virus that causes bronchiolitis and causes up to a thousand hospitalizations annually in Galicia. Thus, starting September 25, they will immediately receive the corresponding dose all boys and girls born in the Ferrol Health Area. Those who are born from September 25, 2023 and during the campaign will be vaccinated at the hospital in the first 24-48 hours of life.
In addition, those boys and girls who were premature (born since October 1, 2021) and those under two years of age who are considered high risk due to suffering from certain pathologies, such as bronchopulmonary dysplasia or congenital heart disease, will also begin to be immunized. In the Ferrol Health Area, this group of children will be vaccinated on the afternoons of next Monday and Tuesday at the Specialty Center of the Arquitecto Marcide Hospital of the Ferrol University Hospital Complex. They were already being summoned these days.
The plan is to immunize all boys and girls who were born on or after April 1 of this year. For this reason, in the first two weeks of October, children born from this month onwards and who do not fall into the first group (premature or high risk). It is estimated that there will be a total of about 400 children in all groups in the Ferrol area.
The respiratory syncytial virus is one of those responsible for bronchiolitis in babies, a pathology that causes nearly 1,000 hospitalizations each year in Galicia alone, 75% in children under one year old. The goal of immunization is to reduce the number of cases of bronchiolite to avoid serious health complications in children and hospital admissions.
2023-09-24 11:32:43
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