Very Health Minister Manuela García and Public Health Director Elena Esteban announced today that they have begun next year’s vaccination campaign.Taking into account the overall percentage of the target population The proportion of people who have been vaccinated this season is 22.68%. This is a far cry from the recommendations of the World Health Organization, which estimates that to fully protect the global population, 75% of the population should be vaccinated All groups calling for this.
In view of the poor results, the Minister of Health announced that At the next event, people will be able to get vaccinated without making an appointmentto address the “immediacy” of citizen demands at this timea, he estimated.
He also announced that he would go to schoolChildren under five years of age will be vaccinated with parental consent, with the goal of increasing coverage to 20.56% of the target group this year with this group.
Finally, he also announced that they will go to hospital medical services to encourage and accelerate the immunization campaign of health personnel, which is currently over at a price of 15%.
The counselor explained that public hospitals usually set up vaccination points on the way to the canteen, but some medical service institutions, due to their characteristics, would be better off going there to vaccinate their professionals.
In defense of his proposal to get vaccinated without an appointment, Garcia argued that while 17,046 people had been vaccinated in 15 days this year, three times the number of people vaccinated during the same period last year (6,044).
10% of the fee
at last, Elena Esteban revealed that after the event, the laboratory will return 10% of the total cost of the vaccine.
You may recall that when introducing this year’s vaccination campaign, the Ministry of Health announced that a total of 266,800 doses of influenza vaccine would be distributed. Of these, 140,000 doses are adjuvanted influenza vaccine, 4,800 doses of high-load vaccine for particularly vulnerable seniors, 22,000 doses of intranasal vaccine for children aged 2 to 4 years and 11 months, and 100,000 doses of quadrivalent vaccine . More than €3 million has been allocated for all these vaccines.