In the light of the available vaccines, the anti-Covid vaccination campaign. After the first phase, almost completed with the recalls, which involves healthcare personnel, operators and guests of retirement homes, phase two – in the plan presented by the Minister of Health to Parliament – aims first agli Over 80. For them, the Fvg has developed a delivery system to this, which will click from Monday 15 February. About 15 thousand people, followed at home, will be contacted directly by the Prevention Districts and vaccinated at home. For all the others, however, from tomorrow the reservation is made – through pharmacies, Cup and call center at 0434-223522 (not from your GP) – for the first dose.
Alongside the Over 80s, it will then be the turn of the people who belong to the world of school, armed forces and law and order and essential services. The vaccine will be used for them AstraZeneca, which at the moment (pending further data) has been approved by the Agency for the drug only for the range 18-55 years without particular pathologies.
While waiting to clarify exactly which categories will be included in ‘phase three’ by exploiting AstraZeneca doses that cannot be used for the elderly population, the Ministry of Health, in collaboration with Aifa, the Higher Institute of Health and Agenas, has updated the vaccination plan, adding six new categories considered priority.
It is above all about extremely vulnerable individuals, regardless of age, or people with particularly critical pathologies which, in the event of contagion, can favor the most unfortunate outcomes of Covid-19. These are those suffering from respiratory, cardiovascular diseases, neurological conditions and disabilities, diabetes and severe endocrinopathies, cystic fibrosis, renal pathology, autoimmune, hepatic, cerebrovascular diseases, severe obesity and oncological diseases, but also people with Down syndrome or who have undergone a transplant.
Then follow people between 75 and 79 and those between 70 and 74; people with particular clinical risk aged 16 to 69 and 55 to 69 without conditions that increase their clinical risk.
The update document will now be discussed in the State-Regions Conference.
The non-secondary issue of who will physically carry out the administrations remains on the field. “I find it acceptable that, in the desirable hypothesis in which the deliveries of vaccines comply with the commitments made by the Government, in the face of a need for health personnel to carry out the administrations, the possibility of recruiting, for a fixed time, nurses employed by the Regional health system in derogation from the exclusivity constraint that binds the nurses themselves to the Health Trusts. This proposal, entirely reasonable, clashes with the obstacle that the case falls within the exclusive competence of the national legislator and the requests in this sense advanced in the of the Conference of Regions are still awaiting an answer, “he said today in Palmanova the deputy governor with responsibility for the Health of Friuli Venezia Giulia, Riccardo Riccardi, in response to the request received by the representative of the Order of Nursing Professions of Pordenone for the Region to eliminate, for a few months, the professional exclusivity of nurses with companies in order to use them in vaccinations.
As Riccardi explained, there is no doubt that in order to accelerate vaccinations, in addition to the availability of doses, an adequate number of health personnel is needed, “which still has to be integrated overall by the commissioner”.
“From this perspective – concluded Riccardi -, at least in the short term, as proposed to the Government by the Health Commission of the Conference of the Regions, a solution could be represented by the stipulation of an agreement between the bodies concerned for the employment of personnel. this will be a response that we will expect from the new Executive “.
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