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The Minister of Health, Monica Garciaannounced at a press conference this Monday that the Ministry will lead to Plenary session of the Interterritorial Council of the National Health System (SNS) this Friday a consensus document for all the autonomous communities “to establish common criteria for action on influenza and Covid-19 throughout the national territory with the purpose of assessing the risk posed by respiratory diseases to establish common criteria on prevention and control measures“.
With this document, the Ministry intends to avoid and prevent situations of collapse in hospitals such as those experienced in the last weeks of 2023 and in the month of January 2024where there was a very high flu incidence peak. “We have to anticipate and respond and, to this end, we are working in the Public Health Commission with the autonomous communities on a document that establishes common criteria throughout the national territory with the purpose of assessing the risk posed by respiratory diseases and evaluate measures”declared the minister.
“We have to anticipate and respond and, to do so, we are working in the Public Health Commission with the autonomous communities on a document that establishes common criteria throughout the national territory”
Thus, the minister has explained that this document has three main objectives: propose indicators that allow characterizing the situation epidemiology of respiratory diseases to assess their transmissibility and impact; establish risk scenarios based on these indicators, and propose recommendations for each of these risk scenarios.
This point will be on the agenda of the CISNS Plenary Session this Friday as an information point through which the Ministry “will ask the autonomous communities to unify efforts and share the progress they are making.”
“The Ministry will ask the autonomous communities to unify efforts and share the progress they are making”
Vaccination campaign 2024-2025
During the press conference this Monday the minister presented the vaccination campaign for the autumn-winter for 2024-2025which this year has the main objective of “increase coverage reaching at least 75% in people over 65 years of age in order to protect the most vulnerable and reduce pressure on hospitals.”
“The flu It is not a mild illness It affects the most vulnerable people, those with chronic diseases, the elderly, pregnant women, immunosuppressed people, etc. That is why we want to emphasize the importance of this campaign. The vaccine is the best strategy we have to prevent both diseases, the flu and Covid-19, and reduce hospitalization. It is a positive campaign with which we want to convey that vaccination is the best way to prevent“said the minister.
“The vaccine is the best strategy we have to prevent both diseases, the flu and Covid-19, and reduce hospitalizations”
In this campaign, priority will also be given to simultaneous vaccination with both infections, the flu and Covid-19, with the aim of “achieve or exceed 75% vaccination in older people and health workers and 60% in pregnant women and people with risk conditions“.
Recommended groups
“Los diana groups They are: people over 60 years old, especially people over 80 years old, institutionalized people, those who have a chronic illness, pregnant women in any trimester since it not only protects the mother, but also the newborn, the immunosuppressed, health personnel and socio-health and the child population, especially children under five years of age who are also susceptible to suffering from flu complications“García pointed out.
“It is a positive campaign with which we want to convey that vaccination is the best way to prevent“
The minister has indicated that the campaign, which this year has the motto Don’t let the flu stop ushas already begun in some autonomous communities and will continue until January, although “It is best to do it as soon as possible. It will prioritize vaccination in nursing homes and in centers of people with disabilities and Covid-19 vaccines adapted to the new variants will be available to maximize their effectiveness“, assured the minister.
