“This fall it’s time to roll up your sleeves.” This is the motto chosen by the Canarian Health Service to start the campaign against flu and covid for the 2023/2024 season. For this task, the Archipelago has acquired 335,000 doses through an investment of almost three million euros to protect the population and minimize health stress in the Archipelago in the coming months. Although the campaign starts next Monday the 16th, from Wednesday the 11th it is possible to make an appointment through 012 or at the numbers 922470012 and 928301012.
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For the first time, the flu vaccine will be administered smokers and healthy children between six and 59 months of age. These two profiles are added to the usual target groups, which include people over 60 years of age, health professionals or pregnant women or women who have given birth in the last six months. In addition, this time the vaccine will reach students in the clinical field and workers who are in contact with animals.
For all of them have been acquired four types of vaccine. For the target population over six months old, 100,000 doses are allocated (with an investment of 390,000 euros); For the group of people over 24 months of age, 180,000 doses (1,386,000 euros) have been purchased; For the institutionalized elderly population and the elderly bedridden at home and those over 60 years of age, 30,000 doses (750,000 euros) have been purchased; and for children between two and five years old without underlying pathologies, 25,000 doses have been purchased, for which 463,000 euros have been invested. In this case, furthermore, it is inhaled medication.
For its part, vaccination against covid will focus on people over 60 years of age, pregnant women in any trimester of pregnancy, people with a high degree of immunosuppression and for people five years old and older, hospitalized in care centers for people with disability and nursing homes.
The head of the Epidemiology service, Amós Garcíarecalled that with the vaccination campaign «we try to avoid serious cases» derived from the flu and covid in this case, and pointed out that the reason why smokers have been included in the flu vaccination is because they are «people with a greater chance of getting sick and who, In addition, they can present serious complications.
In the case of children of ebetween six months and four years and 11 months of age“we avoid the anxiety for families of having a child with the flu in their care and because, in addition, they are major transmitters of the virus to the adult population, which causes it to spread significantly.”
Regarding covid, Amós García insisted that “we find ourselves in a different scenario than the pandemic, fortunately,” but warned that it is a virus that “is not going to disappear and that will give rise to more variants.” so that he highlighted the importance of «ensure that the most vulnerable groups are immunized to achieve a scenario as similar as possible to the common flu times that we already experience.
The target population can now make an appointment through 012 or the numbers 922470012 and 928301012
The Health Minister of Government of the Canary IslandsEsther Monzón, He pointed out that “this year we continue in the situation of coexistence of covid with other seasonal pathologies such as the flu, so the vaccination of the most vulnerable groups and essential professionals for the community is essential.”
For your part, andhe general director of Public Health, José Díaz-Flores, explained that the information campaign that will be disseminated in digital media, social networks, shift screens in hospitals and health centers, LED screens in the urban environment and radio stations, will indicate which population groups are at risk of suffering from complications in in case of contracting flu or covid.
In this sense, the general director of Public Health insisted that The vaccine is the most effective way to avoid contracting or transmitting the fluespecially in those people who are at risk of suffering complications if they suffer from the disease and in personnel who are essential for the community such as health workers and caregivers of the elderly or dependents.
2023-10-11 23:00:45
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