Autumn begins and, with the first rains, problems with respiratory viruses and others such as the flu begin. The Pontevedra Hospital Complex, CHOP, has already overcome its first “overloads” (“entertaining weeks”, as some workers called them yesterday), with numerous cases of emergency assistance, especially among elderly people and others with respiratory problems. .
“Now things have calmed down, but those weeks at the beginning of October were entertaining due to the weather, because it greatly affected patients with respiratory conditions,” explain workers from the Montecelo Emergency Service, who indicate that at this time of year “there is a preview of the big thing that comes later.”
In any case, patients have not yet had time to achieve immunization against the flu and COVID viruses, against which the at-risk population in the health area of Pontevedra and O Salnés is being vaccinated.
The bulk of the campaign began on October 14 in health centers with those over 80 years of age who do not live in residences (since the others were previously protected). Since many of them did not attend the appointment that was sent to them via SMS to their mobile phone, they are being called directly to ask if it is their wish not to be vaccinated or if they simply got lost or did not see that message.
Diego Canedo, coordinator of the campaign against flu and covid in the health area, reports that assistance is being “similar to that of previous years” and that, in general, the elderly decide to get both vaccines to be protected against both viruses.
Now it is the turn of those between 70 and 79 years old, whose vaccination will be carried out at the “vaccinodromes“, in the case of Pontevedra at the Xunta site in Campolongo. In principle, this phase of the campaign was scheduled to begin this Monday, October 28, but it was finally postponed to tomorrow, Wednesday, the 30th.
The vaccination schedule at the Pontevedra “vacunodrome” will be from Monday to Saturday from 8:45 a.m. to 2 p.m. and from 3:30 p.m. to 8:45 p.m. From the health area, it is remembered that even if an SMS is received with a specific day and date, some “flexibility” is allowed because many of the elderly have to be accompanied by family members or other people who work to facilitate assistance.
As Diego Canedo indicates, Between October 30 and November 7 alone, 8,269 people will be summoned in the district of Pontevedra and another 2,500 in O Salnés.
In addition, professionals from the health and social health field who have not been vaccinated until now will also be called in the first days. The afternoons of November 2, 4 and 5 will be reserved for workers.
«We must not let our guard down. Every year, between flu and COVID, many lives are taken and every year the Emergencies and Primary Care are saturated. One of the best measures to control this is general vaccination,” concludes the campaign coordinator in Pontevedra and O Salnés.
The health area recovers six Pediatric teams
The Pontevedra and O Salnés health area reported yesterday that it has recovered six Primary Care Pediatric teams since September in the A Parda (2) and Virgen Peregrina (1) health centers in the city of Pontevedra; Forcarei-Tenorio (1), Marín (1), and a new Primary Care Pediatrics team for the Barro and Monte Porreiro health centers.
The professional team for the Barro and Monte Porreiro health centers in the capital of Lérez has been in charge of the common child health care in both locations since yesterday, for which the consultation is distributed as follows: three days a week at the Monte Porreiro health center and two days at the Primary Care center of the municipality of Barro, in the morning – from 8 a.m. to 3 p.m. – from Monday to Friday, in which improvement works have been carried out .
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