Nearly 240,000 doses of influenza vaccine have been administered in Aragon, 61% of which were purchased for this event

Public Health Director Nuria Gayán expressed her concerns about the incident on Tuesday Influenza vaccination coverage among children 6 to 59 months is low (28%) To this end, it sends an appeal to Aragonese families to increase the immunization of the population participating in the campaign this year.

He said the figure was “low”, although it was “expected” in the first year: “But it’s worth remembering and A message to fathers and mothers: This is a safe vaccine, Effective, free and convenient. “Flu in children is more than just a common cold, it can cause children to develop severe symptom problems, respiratory complications and even hospitalization.”

Gayan stressed the importance of insisting on influenza vaccination for this group of people: “There is a lot of scientific evidence behind this and it is supported by all communities and ministries of health. It is very convenient for children under 5 years of age to receive the influenza vaccine.” Age vaccination Flu vaccine to avoid these complications.

Aragorn almost succeeded 240,000 doses of flu vaccine, accounting for 62% of the doses obtained by the program. It must be remembered that the joint campaign against this virus and covid-19 started in nursing homes at the beginning of October and was later extended to infants, Aragonese over 85 years old and health care workers, and then to all people over 60 years old and risk groups . Last week, 26,093 doses of vaccine were administered.

The Director-General of Public Health explained that this year the starting age has been extended from 65 to 60 years.From this age, coverage 49%. “But if we break it down by age group, we see that only new entrants, those aged 60 to 64, and those joining for the first time, have the lowest coverage at 20.9%,” he concluded. .

Among people over 65, coverage is 58%. Among those aged over 80, this rises to 73%: “Our target is to reach 75%, which we think is easily achievable.” As a novelty of the campaign, smokers are offered flu vaccines Vaccination. Regarding health worker coverage, public health authorities are in the process of purifying information to understand what coverage is being achieved.Gayan said: “This is a fact we are worried Because it is low, we would like to increase it, but first with more reliable and better computational data. When we have them, we will also see what strategies and measures we can put in place to promote vaccination or develop other strategies to improve health care coverage. ”

about Coronavirus Treatment is almost done 200,000 doses, reaching nearly 50% of the target population. Last week, 16,238 doses of vaccine were administered.

Gayán also provides information on Infant respiratory syncytial virus vaccination. “Coverage is now close to 95%, so all the remaining babies who need to be vaccinated are those who are not yet born between now and March 31,” he noted. In this sense, he thanked the neonatal services “Active recruitment” of at-risk children has immunized 253 children, 162 of whom were premature. “The remainder were children recruited in actively recruiting health centres, were under 6 months old when the campaign began, and almost all had already been vaccinated.” A total of 5,263 doses have been administered.

Vaccinations for Health Sciences Students

Nuria Gayán, Director of the General Directorate of Public Health of the Government of Aragon, and Angela Alcalá, Vice-Rector for Students and Employment of the University of Zaragoza, attended on Tuesday the presentation of students of the Lozano School of Medicine and Health Sciences Vaccination campaign Blesa University Clinical Hospital, where they passed until 150 young people.

The appointment was attended by Daniel Villalba, Elena Clemente and Juan Lasheras, fourth-year nursing students at St. George’s University I am currently practicing in a clinic. The first two items are dialysis and the third item is blood transfusion. “They say you have to get vaccinated to protect yourself and others.” They agreed that this is also ” for example

“We believe that as health professionals we have to support vaccination for some time.”

Two fourth-year medical students, Celia and Rebecca, also received flu shots. They added: “We understand that as students we must get vaccinated and set an example. We know this is presented to us in the classroom, in public health and preventive medicine practice, and we decided to come, For safety, for patients, and for us.