The Primary Care team, EAPIB-Res (Support team for comprehensive care in residences in the Balearic Islands) composed of nurse Encarnación Medina García and Dr. Walter Schiaffino, will travel this week to the residences in Ibiza and Formentera .
The first residence to receive a visit from EPAIB-Res was Reina Sofía and there have been a hundred users who have received the double vaccine against flu and COVID-19.
This Tuesday, institutionalized people from the Cas Serres and Formentera residences will be vaccinated, on Wednesday it will be the turn of Sa Residència, on Thursday Can Raspalls and Sa Serra and on Friday Can Blai.
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The first to protect themselves against these two viruses have been Mabel Estela Cledón, 78 years old, María García Segura, 85 years old, María Colomba Miguélez Miguélez, 74 years old, and Pedro Mas Artigas, 58 years old.
As the main novelties of this campaign, it is worth highlighting the pilot vaccination plan in schools, in which 8 schools in Ibiza and Formentera will participate, one per health center. The schools participating in this pilot plan are the Can Cantó school through the Es Viver Health Center, Mare de Déu de les Neus through the Sant Jordi de ses Salines Health Center, and Ses Planes through the Sant Josep de sa Talaia center. , the CEIP Sant Antoni for the Sant Antoni Health Center in Portmany, Nuestra Señora de Jesús for the Vila Health Center, the CEIP Can Misses for the center of the same name, Sa Venda d’Arabí for the Santa Eulária des Riu Center and the Sant Ferràn de ses Roques school by the Formentera Health Center. The intranasal vaccine is aimed at students in the second cycle of early childhood education, that is, children aged 3, 4 and 5 years, and in Ibiza and Formentera 800 minors will be vaccinated within this pilot program.
This pilot plan will begin on Monday, October 14, as well as the universal vaccination of children between 6 and 59 months of age (4 years and 11 months), which will conclude a month later, on November 14.
The reason for the universal immunization of this group, already implemented in the last flu campaign, is that children of this age suffer from the flu very frequently and, sometimes, very seriously. In addition, they are usually the main transmitters of the influenza virus to other target groups. This not only provides individual protection to the minor, but also protects vulnerable people in their environment from contagion.
The vaccination schedule for these healthy children will be a single dose, and the youngest children, from six months to two years old, will be administered an inactivated injectable vaccine. The rest of the children in the age group, from 2 years to 4 years and 11 months, will be given an intranasal flu vaccine.
Vaccination without an appointment, starting November 4
Also on October 14, the campaign to vaccinate the general population in health centers will begin. People who want to be immunized against the seasonal virus may request an appointment in advance through the InfoSalut telephone number (971 22 00 00) or on the website grip.caib.es, where you can also consult the schedules of the health centers in the to get vaccinated without an appointment starting November 4.
A first consignment of flu vaccines of 20,630 units has arrived at the Ibiza and Formentera Health Area for this start of vaccination.
The vaccination campaign is aimed at all people over 60 years of age and those under that age who meet any of the established risk conditions. In total, this target population is made up of a total of 77,204 users in the Pitiusas Islands, of which 22,622 are over 65 years of age.
Vaccination is recommended for the following population groups:
-People aged 60 or over.
-People over 65 years of age admitted to nursing homes, centers for the disabled or admitted to closed institutions.
-People who, from the age of 12, suffer from a risk condition such as diabetes; morbid obesity; chronic cardiovascular, neurological or respiratory diseases; kidney or liver pathologies, including alcoholism; serious neuromuscular diseases; immunosuppressed people, including those whose immune system is weakened by the AIDS virus (HIV) or by drugs, as well as transplant recipients; celiacs; people diagnosed with cancer; with chronic inflammatory diseases, and those who suffer from disorders or diseases that lead to cognitive dysfunction, such as Down syndrome or dementia.
-Pregnant women at any time during pregnancy and up to six months after delivery.
-People who live with those who have a high degree of immunosuppression (transplant recipients, people with chronic kidney failure or those infected with HIV).
-Smokers.
-Personnel from health and social health centers, both public and private, as well as students interning in these centers.
-Workers of essential public services, such as State security forces and bodies, both national and local, firefighters and civil protection services. It is also recommended that staff at daycare centers and early childhood education centers get vaccinated.
-People who work on poultry, swine, mink or wildlife farms or operations, in order to avoid cross-contamination of human and animal viruses.
Vaccination against COVID-19
As in previous anti-flu campaigns since the outbreak of the pandemic respiratory virus, in IB-Salut centers the possibility of administering both vaccines, the flu vaccine and the COVID vaccine, will be offered to those people for whom it is indicated.
Thus, in nursing homes this group will be offered the possibility of receiving both vaccines in the same medical procedure, a recommendation that will be extended to all institutionalized people.
Double vaccination will also be offered to the entire population with risk conditions from 12 years of age, to pregnant women, to those living with people with a high degree of immunosuppression or to older people with higher risk pathologies, and to health care personnel. essential services and workers in health or social health centers, with the sole exception of students in training, who are only recommended to be vaccinated against influenza.
Finally, children between 6 months and 12 years old who suffer from any of the following diseases, as well as people who live with them, are also urged to be vaccinated against COVID-19: transplanted from hematopoietic parents, those who suffer from immunodeficiencies primary and acquired or are being treated with immunosuppressants and those who suffer from severe chronic cardiovascular, respiratory, neurological or neuromuscular diseases.