The Minister of Health, Manuela García, was vaccinated this afternoon against the flu and covid-19 in her Can Pastilla health center due to her chronically ill condition, she revealed after being inoculated with the drugs.
The person in charge of the Ministry has also justified her action in that she must set an example for citizens vulnerable to the two viruses as well as for health workers who can act as transmitters of the diseases so that they continue on their path.
Asked what percentage of healthcare personnel were vaccinated last season, Garcia said I didn’t know that information but that last autumn/winter only 48% of the Balearic population at risk was immunized, a percentage very far from the ideal of 70% recommended by the Ministry of Health, he admitted.
They have also announced that in this campaign they will devise incentive advertising messages to try to increase the percentage of the Balearic population immunized to at least 60%. “The susceptible population is about 725,000 people for the flu and of them about 475,000 for the flu and covid-19,” he detailed. asking health professionals to act like her and “advise” the population to get vaccinated.
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To increase vaccination among this last group (healthcare), the minister has revealed that better coverage is obtained when, in hospital settings, the vaccinating teams go to the medical services to immunize the attending doctors themselves and the rest of the staff there. health personnel.
Regarding when healthy children between the ages of 6 and 59 months will begin to be vaccinated, the councilor recalled that it will be next November 3. García has justified this vaccination against the flu to a population excluded until now in previous campaigns (healthy children) in that “they are the main reservoir (of the flu) in homes.”
When asked why this year, given that the fact that children bring the flu from school to home is something that has always been known, the councilor clarified that “we use the means when we know things and there is evidence.” that there are vaccines that are going to be safe and protect us.
2023-10-23 11:31:14
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