This was explained by the Minister of Health, Jesús Fernández Sanz, after the extraordinary meeting of the Governing Council held early in the morning.
The person in charge of the health policies of Castilla-La Mancha has announced that 16 large vaccination centers will be opened in the five provincial capitals, as well as in the towns of Almansa, Hellín, La Roda and Villarrobledo, in the province of Albacete ; Alcázar de San Juan, Manzanares, Puertollano, Tomelloso and Valdepeñas, in the province of Ciudad Real; and Talavera de la Reina and Illescas in the province of Toledo.
In this way, in the province of Albacete, vaccinations will be given in the Fair Pavilion of the city of Albacete, as well as in the Almansa Hospital, the Hellín Hospital, the Villarrobledo Hospital and in the Caja Blanca de La Roda.
In the province of Ciudad Real, it will be held at the Ciudad Real Hospital, the Alcázar de San Juan Hospital, the Manzanares Hospital, the Puertollano Hospital, the Tomelloso Hospital and the Valdepeñas Hospital.
In Cuenca they will be vaccinated at the La Hípica Center in the Cuenca capital.
And in the province of Toledo, it will be held at the Toledo University Hospital and the Buenavista Health Center, also in the city of Toledo; as well as at the CEDT of Illescas and at the Río Tajo de Talavera de la Reina Health Center.
Vaccination at the San José Center in Guadalajara from January 10
The San José Sports Center will reopen as a Centralized Vaccination Service as of January 10. The Management of the Integrated Area of Guadalajara, dependent on the Castilla-La Mancha Health Service (SESCAM), formally requested the Guadalajara Provincial Council to use this facility to resume vaccination of the population of Guadalajara against Covid-19 .
The vaccination coordinator in the province of Guadalajara, Ángeles Martín Octavio, wanted to thank the provincial institution for its collaboration, which “once again adds its forces to the fight against Covid” by making this sports facility available to address vaccination of the population against this disease. A collaboration to which the Guadalajara City Council joins again to facilitate organization and security in access to the vaccination point.
Between the months of March and October, the San José Sports Center remained open as a massive vaccination service with an excellent performance highly valued by citizens. Throughout those seven months, more than 190,000 doses of vaccine were inoculated in San José, and now it is reopening to meet the objective of continuing to administer the vaccine against Covid.
The vaccination will follow, as in the previous calls, the lines marked by the Vaccination Strategy for the immunization of the different age groups, and later it will be informed of days, times and appointments.
The Government of Castilla-La Mancha reopens the large vaccination centers to continue promoting this process that is giving such good health results. The vaccine has amply shown its effectiveness and this process has managed to put us in a very different situation from last year on these same dates, with a significantly lower number of patients admitted for Covid-19, and practically half of patients in ICU.
The reopening of the massive vaccination points is a measure that will contribute to reduce the healthcare pressure that Primary Care suffers at this time.
Measures to decongest Primary Care
On the other hand, the Minister of Health, Fernández Sanz has explained that “this vaccination process in large centers will alleviate the healthcare pressure that Primary Care is suffering, to which new measures are added”, such as the reinforcement of personnel in administrative areas and the call center, “to expedite appointments in Primary Care given the increase in healthcare pressure registered in recent days as a result of the increase in Covid cases, one of them being”.
In this way, as detailed by the counselor, there will be 205 more administrative staff than before the pandemic and 31 more people to reinforce the telephone response call-center, where more than 15,000 appointments are managed daily.
Likewise, different points to healthcare resources will be set up to carry out PCR, and citizens will not have to go to their health center when the result of their PCR is negative, because it will be communicated by SMS.
On the other hand, sick leave due to COVID will be carried out from the Inspection Management.
Finally, the renewal of medications for chronic patients will be automatic and they will not have to go to the Health Center either.
Cumulative Incidence
Currently, Castilla-La Mancha continues to be the Autonomous Community with the lowest number of Accumulated Incidents, both at 14 days and at seven days.
Thus, in Accumulated Incidence at 14 days Castilla-La Mancha registers 374 cases per 100,000 inhabitants, while the national average is 784 cases per 100,000 inhabitants.
Likewise, in Accumulated Incidence at seven days, the region registers 193 cases per 100,000 inhabitants, while the national average is 486 cases per 100,000 inhabitants.
What the director of Public Health does not explain is that these incidents, marked by the Ministry of Health, do so with half the cases that the Board has been communicating. Thus the Ministry of Health says that in Castilla-la Mancha there have been 3,953 cases in the last 7 days and 7.668 cases in the last 14 days, but according to the daily reports that the Board has transferred to the press, there have been 7,969 cases in the last 7 days and 11,341 to 14 days. This would be an incidence of 390 to 7 days and 554 to 14 days.
In fact, the Board, although it has already offered the covid data by municipalities today, last week, it has not updated the map where it places the incidents and total weekly cases that would obviously contradict these figures from the Ministry.
Vaccination
Regarding the vaccination process, in Castilla-La Mancha a total of 3,599,034 vaccines have already been administered and it stands out that, in the age group from 11 to 5 years, “our region is among the five autonomous communities that are vaccinating the most in this age range, with 22.6 percent, while the national average is 17.8 ”, as the counselor has emphasized.
Likewise, among those over 60 years of age, coverage of more than 80 percent has already been achieved in the booster dose.
The counselor stressed that “thanks to vaccination we are in a very different phase from last year at this time”, adding that “now, 86 percent of the PCR carried out are negative and, although there are many infections, there are very few hospital admissions ”.
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