After immunizing health personnel, the municipality launched the operation for the placement of doses in pregnant and postpartum women, children from 6 to 24 months, over 65 years of age and people with risk factors
With the health personnel already fully vaccinated, Rosario launched the application of the anti-flu vaccine to the rest of the target population: pregnant people, puerperal women, boys and girls from 6 to 24 months, over 65 years of age and anyone who due to associated diseases and risk factors Have it prescribed by your doctor.
“The sooner we can vaccinate all risk groups, the better,” said the Secretary of Health of the municipality, Leonardo Caruana, which set the month of April as a goal. “Ideally, when the virus begins to circulate more intensely in the months of May and June, we already have wide adherence in the city,” he explained.
For those who are within the target population, the doses may be placed without shift both during the morning and during the afternoon in the 50 neighborhood health centers of the municipal primary care network.
Meanwhile, in the vaccination centers at the Roque Sáenz Peña, Vilela, Carrasco, Clemente Álvarez (Heca), Alberdi hospitals and the Rosario Outpatient Medical Specialties Center (Cemar) They can also be placed from 8 a.m. to 6 p.m., although with the request of a previous shift through a web form or by phone at 480-2548, available from 8 a.m. to 4 p.m.
“With this network we will be able to give around 5,000 shifts a day”indicated the Secretary of Health, who highlighted “the wide access that allows access to the vaccine to which the health centers are added and also the pharmacies with whom work is being done for the application of both Pami and Iapos affiliates.”
In the case of affiliates of the social work of retirees and of the province, prior consultations can be made to the websites www.pami.org.ar y www.iapossantafe.gob.ar.
Also Covid reinforcement
In addition to the application of the flu vaccine, the head of health of the Municipality recalled that in all cases those who need to also apply “A booster of the Covid-19 vaccine can be done at the same time simultaneously”indicated.
On the need to continue immunizing against the coronavirus, Caruana considered that “We must continue to be attentive to risk groupsespecially to people who are not yet vaccinated with the reinforcements that were indicated by the Ministry of Health of the Nation “.
Although he made it clear that it is still not clear how the Covid scenario will continue, since that will have to be defined soon by the Nation, he indicated that “for now we must continue with the reinforcements that have already been indicated and that we know can be done simultaneously with flu vaccination,” he clarified.
The goal, for the official, “is to achieve broad adherence during the month of April” and in this sense, he considered the awareness that occurred in the framework of the Covid-19 pandemic crucial.
“This situation put on the table in recent years the need for immunization and for this reason, also, the offer of the flu vaccine for its application has become so diversified and it is carried out simultaneously in the largest possible number of effectors and centers of health in such a way that there are no bottlenecks in the application,” concluded Caruana.
