For the first time, Galicia has included in its vaccination campaign against complaint to this group. Since last October 10, the pediatric services of health centers throughout the community have offered the vaccine to children between 6 months and 5 years. However, to reach a greater number of children, Sergas has launched this weekend massive vaccination days in all Galician hospitals.
“We are from 10 in the morning to 20:30 on Saturdays and Sundays in the morning shift, until 12:30,” says Beatriz Blanco, a CHUOU nurse. More than 2,000 minors are summoned to the University Hospital Center of Ourense alone. “All parents who have not yet been able to take their children to the health center for vaccination have received an SMS with the estimated time of the appointment,” explains Josefa Rodríguez, deputy director of Primary Care Nursing in the Ourense health area. “We want to make it easier for parents to vaccinate their children Outside working hours“indicate.
Vaccination adapted to boys and girls
Furthermore, in this hospital, the vaccination campaigns for children continue to surprise. Since the pandemic the nurses of the vaccination teams they dress and make up of children’s favorite characters. Today we saw Lady Bug, Spiderman, Captain America and all the Paw Patrol. “It’s a way of making puncturing more fun for the kids, and we also manage to take the fear out of them,” says Beatriz.
To date they have already been immunized 20,400 Galician minors, 28% of the group.
