The Poniente Health District of Almería, belonging to the Andalusian Health Service (SAS), has developed a program of interventions in the Clinical Management Unit of the Alpujarra to streamline and facilitate the vaccination of over 65s against influenza and covid. Starting Monday, a team of healthcare professionals will travel to the region’s doctors’ offices to administer individual doses. People who are eligible to be vaccinated must make an appointment through the usual channels.
You can join this call people over 65, children between 6 and 59 months, people between 5 and 64 with chronic diseases, large dependents residing in their homes and professional care assistants and pregnant women. To receive the required vaccines, you must make an appointment via the ClicSalud + website, the Salud Responde application or directly at your doctor’s office.
The first planned intervention by the Poniente Health District of Almería will take place Monday 17 October in the medical practices of Paterna del Río, Bayárcal and Fuente Victoria. Healthcare professionals will assist users from nine to eleven in the morning in Fuente Victoria; from ten to eleven in the morning in Paterna; and from twelve to one at noon in Bayárcal.
Tuesday 18th Octoberthe vaccination team will move to Fondón to cover the population of this city between ten and twelve in the morning. Wednesday 19th October Health care will be strengthened for vaccination in the municipality of Laujar de Andarax, between three and six in the afternoon. Finally, the population of Alcolea will be served on Thursday 20 October, from ten to twelve in the morning.
The Poniente Health District has also taken into account the inhabitants of other places with a smaller population such as Enix and Felix. In this case, a vaccination team will go to the Enix doctor’s office to vaccinate people who wish to vaccinate on Wednesday, October 19, between twelve and two in the afternoon. The next day, October 20, he will be in Felix’s doctor’s office, from nine to eleven in the morning. The toilets will administer the flu shot and covid booster dose.
The Poniente Health District insists the need to protect themselves from influenza and Covid-19, especially among the most vulnerable. Starting Monday, people aged 65 to 79 can now make an appointment to receive both vaccines. As a novelty, children between 6 and 59 months will receive the flu vaccine and will be able to request it through the usual channels. The district’s vaccine referral nurse, Vanesa Fernández, encourages the population to be protected. “The flu is in the air and prevention is very important. Get vaccinated for yourself and for others too, ”she said.
Since the start of the vaccination campaign against influenza and covid-19, which took place at the same time, Healthcare professionals in the Poniente District administered more than 5,000 doses compared to the first and about 4,200 compared to the second.
