Castilla y León allocates more than 9 million euros to get flu vaccines

The Community Management Council is a Castile and León has given authority to the General Directorate of Public Health of the area acquisition of 690,500 doses against the flu, with a budget of 9,301,604 euros

The Government Council has today authorized the Ministry of Health to purchase the vaccines to be used during the 2024 regional campaign against influenza, which is expected to begin in the last quarter of this year, as was done in the previous campaign.

In particular, There will be four types of vaccines for indicated use according to the needs of each age population group and health and social risk.

Influenza is a major health problem both because of the mortality that it can cause and because of the health, social and economic consequences that can be caused by its seasonal diseases.

Therefore, The flu vaccine, along with good hygiene practices, is the most effective preventive measure against this respiratory pathology and its complications.especially among people who, as a result of their membership in health and social risk groups, have a greater risk of not only catching the disease more deeply, but of being a transmission vector to other people.

Flu vaccinations given They are distributed in 180,000 doses (worth 1,778,400 euros) for the general population aged 60 to 64, children between six and twenty-three months old and people between five and 59 years old included in risk groups; 460,000 vaccinations (6,219,200 euros) for the non-institutionalized general population aged 60 or older; 50,000 units (1,300,000 euros) aimed at institutionalized persons aged 65 or older or non-institutionalized dependents in that age group; and 500 doses (4,004 euros) for patients with a registered allergy to any of the components of the previous types of vaccines.

Campaign 2023-2024

Just a few months ago the general director of Public Health of Castilla y León said, Sonia Tammesannounce that the strategy adopted by the Ministry of Health to the vaccination campaign against the 2023-2024 flu “achievable”, nevertheless he was “reasonably satisfied” with the results obtained. In this way, Health will repeat the so-called vaccination marathon without appointment for the month of October, open to the general population and in special places, as the experience held on January 13 and 14 before the large number of cases, with 11,500 doses administered.

It should be noted that despite this vaccination campaign, excess mortality was recorded in this region in January 2024, compared to a normal January of 30 percent. with 700 more deaths than expected“more than any other community,” then encrypted with data from the daily all-cause mortality monitoring system (MoMo).

Regarding the coverage data from the last campaign, Castilla y León reached 70 percent of the population over 65 years of agecompared to the national average of 66 percent and “making a podium in the national context together with the only two communities that exceed these numbers, Galicia and Catalonia“, according to Tamaes. Regarding children between six and 59 months, the main novelty of the last vaccination campaign, the region registered a coverage of 45 percent, just behind Galicia, Murcia and Andalusia, but above the national average , 36 percent in this vaccine.

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