The president of the Platform of Patient Groups (POP), Carina Escobar, asked for better and clearer information about vaccination campaigns in relation to risk groups, because “many vulnerable or fragile people do not know that these are -injured and they also don’t know whether to get the vaccine or not” and they don’t get the vaccine because of ignorance.
This was said when a new edition of POP Breakfasts was celebrated which took place at the headquarters of the Servimedia group and in which ‘Public health strategies against infections and antimicrobial resistance’ were addressed.
During her speech, the president of POP explained that in this interconnected world, diseases are a challenge to public health, with a particularly complex effect on patients with chronic diseases.
In fact, he said, “we are often at a higher risk of complications due to infections and increased resistance to antimicrobials that further complicate their clinical management, “these infections are make us consume more antibiotics and get vaccinated. “
Regarding vaccines, Escobar explained, “there are many differences between the autonomous communities in terms of coverage and initiatives.” Regarding the latter, he denied that breast patients are not included and “they are only talking about people over 60 years old or pregnant women but it is not known at the breast patient does he need to get the vaccine.”
THE UNION
In fact, Carina Escobar said, “We tend to talk about fragile or vulnerable people but the people at home do not know if they are weak or vulnerable and this needs to be explained better because people are asked to get vaccinated but we do. we don’t know if we have to do it.”
In this regard, the president of POP pointed out that 54% of the Spanish population has a chronic illness and, from the age of 65, this figure doubles, “which means that we have many people who are vulnerable or vulnerable due to illness or age who do not really know and this needs to be explained.”
Therefore, he asked the health departments to “introduce the word chronicity in vaccination campaigns” and highlighted the need to vaccinate those around chronic and vulnerable patients.
To reduce this problem, the member of Relations with Scientific Societies of the Spanish Vaccine Association, Victoria Nartallo, confirmed that “we are trying to work with scientific societies and patients at risk to create vaccination itineraries. We all need to work together: scientific societies, patients and health professionals. “
Group 7
In this sense, the expert recalled that several priority groups were created for vaccination against covid-19 in the midst of the pandemic. Among them was number 7, which included chronic and higher-risk patients, and asked to remain active and “on everyone’s minds.”
Likewise, the president of the POP also opposed this group 7 because “it was difficult for us to include chronic patients as priorities, although they jumped on this group and the vaccine first with age rather than with disease.In fact, the Spanish soccer league received the vaccine before cystic fibrosis patients or transplants.
At the meeting, the AEV spokesperson also assured that “antimicrobial resistance worries us but against bacterial infections we have vaccines for meningococcus, pneumococcus and diphtheria which were previously fatal and now with a vaccine that this has evolved.”
But there are also vaccines for viral infections that do not require the use of antibiotics. Currently, sera against respiratory viruses such as covid-19, influenza and respiratory syncytial virus are “good measures to stop these diseases.”
CONGRATULATIONS TO GREAT QUEENS
However, Victoria Nartallo stressed, “vaccines are not only necessary, but we must give these vaccines and not give them in any way. “They need to be included in the vaccination schedules and have high coverage rates.”
To do this, a holistic approach to the patient would be required. Therefore, he explained, “patients at risk and healthy people are vaccinated, vaccinating children is not the same as vaccinating adults because in the latter we have a lot of room for improvement . But apart from these numbers, our health workers must raise awareness and get vaccinated because we vaccinate very few. “
Within this comprehensive approach, vaccination of other residents is also essential, because “sometimes we cannot vaccinate people at risk but we can vaccinate their healthy environment to make the most protect the vulnerable. “
QUEEN’S CAMPAIGN
For all these reasons, the AEV carries out several campaigns to promote vaccination coverage by providing health training. “This fall we launched a campaign entitled ‘The best plan for this fall’ aimed at people over 60, people at risk and children between 6 and 59 months about three respiratory diseases that scares us a lot, like the flu, covid-19 and pneumococcus.
The results of this campaign showed that 15% of patients over 60 years old were aware of this campaign. “The important thing is to vaccinate and vaccinate well to get a high coverage because otherwise we will not achieve anything,” said the AEV spokesperson.
The expert recalled that the flu vaccine changes its composition every year and that it is an annual vaccine. The same thing happens with covid-19 because it changes according to the circulation variables.
2024-04-28 10:04:00
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