The Balearic Islands are one of the autonomous communities in the country with the lowest flu vaccination coverage, but this season it seems that they are going to break all negative records, so this immunization campaign against this seasonal virus can only be described as a resounding failure.
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According to absolute figures calculated from the official vaccination percentages offered yesterday by the Health Serviceon these dates in which the immunization shift has already opened for the general population and, therefore, is the preview of the end of the campaignonly less than 19% (18.6%) of the citizens of this archipelago called to do so have done so either due to their age, personal risk situation or essential service condition, less than one in five people qualified as a target population.
In absolute terms, 108,433 people over 60 years of age have been vaccinated, 39% of the 278,034 citizens who have exceeded that age who were scheduled.
Regarding children under 5 years of agewho in this campaign debuted as a risk population to be immunized, Only 5,154 children of the 38,466 summoned have gone to health centers to be immunized, barely 13.4%.
The entire population of the Balearic Islands can now be vaccinated against flu
And finally, of the group of people at risk between the ages of 5 and 59, a total of 406,080 residents on the islands (here it must be taken into account that health personnel and regional and state security forces and bodies are included), Only 23,147 people have been inoculated with the vaccine, reaching the lowest percentage in the series, 5.7% of the total.
Adding all these figures, the resultshows that when the month of December reaches its last days Only 136,734 people of the 724,719 classified by the Ministry of Health as a target population have been protected against the seasonal virus. In this campaign it reached the aforementioned low percentage of 18.8%.
How will it be remembered, at the time of immunization to set an example, the Minister of Health, Manuela Garcíaconspired to increase vaccination coverage in this community, one of the lowest in the country, he admitted.
So, revealed that in last year’s campaign only 48% of the Balearic population at risk had been vaccinated, a percentage well below the recommendations of the Ministry of Health, whose ideal is that at least the seasonal virus be preserved against the seasonal virus. 70% of the “target” citizens of the campaign.
For this reason and Despite this commitment to work to increase last season’s coverage, the vaccines acquired by the Balearic Islands for the current campaign are at least significant: Health has purchased 266,800 doses that would only be enough to immunize 36.8% of the population (724,719 people ) that this same department has cited for the puncture and eleven points below the coverage achieved in the 2022/23 season.
Halfway through the flu campaign, only 14% of the target population of the Balearic Islands has been vaccinated
28 child deaths
The general director of Public Health, Antònia Esteban, yesterday urged parents of the population under 5 years of age to vaccinate their children, revealing that last year 28 children of that age died throughout the country due to complications from the flu.a figure much higher than that of those who die from meningitis.
Esteban regretted the low vaccination coverage despite the fact that, he said, only 14.5 cases of flu per one hundred thousand inhabitants are currently being recorded on the islands. For this reason, he urged the population to get vaccinated now to avoid the peak of cases that usually occurs in the month of February.
2023-12-18 23:21:29
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