Healthcare staff can now be vaccinated against flu and Covid to “protect the public”.

Campaign vaccination against influenza and covid It began in early October gradually in different groups of the population. This Monday vaccination was opened in people over 60 years old and first established vaccination center for all healthcare workers who wish to be immunized at the headquarters of the Zaragoza College of Pharmacists as “an act of commitment to ensure the health of citizens”, according to the Minister of Health José Luis Bancalero, who set an example by simultaneously receiving vaccinations against influenza and covid at this new immunization station.

Thanks to this alliance between the Department of Health of the Government of Aragon and all the associations of health workers in Aragon, health workers will have faster access to vaccination. The purpose of this call is for health workers Protect yourself from respiratory viruses and avoid infecting your most vulnerable patients.and also, according to Bancalero, “to show the responsibility of professionals” in order to instill it in the rest of the population. Likewise, the President of the College of Pharmacists of Zaragoza, Raquel García, stated that this initiative “promotes safer environment, we build trust in vaccines and promote the ability to protect everyone“.

This vaccination center will be available on days November 11, 12, 14, 15 and 16 for all healthcare professionals (doctors, pharmacists, speech therapists, veterinarians, occupational therapists, dentists, podiatrists and physiotherapists and others). Every day they will have the opportunity to vaccinate about 500 specialists who must request preliminary meeting in the Health app.

DATA ABOUT THE FIRST VACCINATION

The first data collected by the Ministry of Health during the flu and Covid vaccination campaign shows that 60% of the population over 85 years of age are already immunized, and 15% of children aged 6 to 59 months.. The difference between both percentages, the Minister of Health analyzes, is that “vaccination was carried out in 29 schools as part of a pilot test and did not cover the entire population.” Although he hopes results will improve after the first two weeks of vaccinating younger populations. In total, more than 115 thousand people have been vaccinated.

In this sense, the president of the medical association, Javier García Tirado, calls on all people to receive doses “as a preventative measure minimize the impact of disease“. First of all, at a time when the flu is at its peak and the death rate from which is estimated at 6,000 people every year.