When the over-65s will be vaccinated around the end of April, it will be the turn of the patients at risk. For privacy reasons, healthy people will also be included in that group. “What percentage it will be, will have to be decided by an inter-ministerial conference on Public Health,” Frank Robben, IT chief of the federal government who is helping with the vaccination campaign, told Belga on Sunday.
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During a digital press conference of the Vaccination Task Force Saturday afternoon, Robben said the at-risk patients will be ‘masked’ by adding healthy people to the queue. For example, employers cannot find out whether their employees have an underlying serious condition. It would be a ‘limited percentage’.
“Ninety percent of people with a comorbidity and ten percent of healthy people have already been discussed,” Robben explains. ‘But that’s the decision ultimately the politicians make, not me. We must of course watch over the balance between health and privacy. ‘
The group at risk includes approximately 1.6 million Belgians between the ages of 18 and 65, with a serious underlying condition.
The Flemish Patient Platform (VPP), which insists on the rapid vaccination of high-risk patients, was not asking for the ‘masking’ of high-risk patients by mixing them with a limited percentage of healthy patients. ‘We have not received any comments about this from our members,’ says director Ilse Weeghmans The newspapaer.
In the meantime, Robben also continues to work on the waiting and reserve lists for the vaccination centers. People can set themselves up there if they want to have a chance to receive a vaccine that is available at the local vaccination center. Then they could register for specific times. Those lists can only contain people whose turn it is at that moment.
“In about a week and a half, that system should be fully operational,” he explains. At the moment most vaccination centers can still continue with their lists of health personnel. With the data from Vaccinnet, they can call up health workers who have not yet been vaccinated for their injection. ‘
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