The flu campaign entered the Canary Islands Parliament yesterday. Health Minister Esther Monzón defends management It noted that respiratory viruses cause surges in island hospital emergency rooms “every year.” Representatives of New Canary Islands and Spain’s Socialist Workers’ Party say it’s ‘horrible’.
Who gets the flu vaccine?
The Canary Islands have administered 234,647 doses of influenza vaccine, 101,000 fewer than the islands purchased. There are 137,291 people over 60 years old, There are 11,220 boys and girls aged 6 months to 5 years, although there are more than 85,000 children in this age group on the islandand 40,248 patients with chronic diseases under the age of 60.
However, surprisingly, they only received the flu vaccine 4,921 are from the health sector and 933 from so-called “essential services”.
According to the Minister of Health, there is a “The international community is tired of vaccines as anti-vaccination messaging has permeated”. Even so, she noted during an appearance in the Canary Islands Parliament that she was satisfied with the results of the campaign, recalling that the island had passed its peak precisely because for two weeks infection levels had declined, So there is an obligation to use masks in health centers and hospitals.
Vaccination starts ‘late’
New Canary Islands representative Yone Caraballo denounced the consultant The vaccination campaign will start on October 16, “when experts warned in the summer that immunizations must take place in September”. He recalled that the health department “gave up” when it saw vaccination rates declining. “They realized they had done it wrong,” he said, concluding that what they should have done was a “copy and paste” of the COVID-19 vaccination campaign.
Peak care in emergencies
Miguel Ángel Pérez of the Spanish Workers’ Socialist Party (PSOE) recalled that he had He told Health in October that beds occupied by discharged patients must be freed up to avoid images of patients in emergency room hallways.. He added that the administration of flu vaccinations was “poor”. “Why aren’t you involved in transporting discharged patients?” he asked himself. «A strategy was proposed to evacuate 526 people, a plan that resulted in a real and agile response, and how many patients have been evacuated? not any”.
Monzon insists Emergency room saturation spikes ‘repeated year after year’. Even so, he added, “we have opened almost 200 more beds” thanks to the help of multipurpose hospitals. “The social and health strategy was not developed from today to tomorrow, nor did the previous legislative bodies. They forced me to make comparisons. Well, from three mixed-use buildings built with European funds that failed to open, we have arrived , in less than eight months, we successfully opened two buildings with 200 additional beds to be able to receive patients. Currently, 500 discharged patients without family members occupy the beds. We have a strategy in place and are about to go through all the procedures. We don’t create the same bed. Let’s start with transitional bed systems. In contrast, we have done more so far. Monzon said, but he apologized to patients who had to stay in the hallway.