Accessing Special Group Vaccines: Information and Benefits for Patients with Specific Pathologies or Risk Situations

With concern about the low coverage rates in patients who require it, the infectologist at the Carlos van Buren Hospital, Dr. Alejandro Kralcalled on the community to inform themselves and access the benefits of the Special Group Vaccine strategy of the National Immunization Program of the Ministry of Health, focused on users with specific pathologies or risk situations.

The infectious disease specialist highlighted that the National Immunization Program of our country is a global benchmark, with high coverage rates in the pediatric population. However, it is important to highlight that there are special groups of the population that require particular attention regarding vaccination.

“In this context, we have a ministerial strategy that follows the same line of assessing the importance of vaccines at the level of our population, called Vaccination of Special Groups, a program that, since 2018, has some vaccines for specific pathologies that Probably many of our patients, both outpatients and inpatients, suffer from them and, therefore, can access them. So, the idea is to disseminate this information so that the community knows these benefits.”, said the specialist.

Access

The process of managing these requests begins with the evaluation by the treating physician, who must issue a medical order (MO) with the clinical diagnosis and the requested vaccine schedules. Once the process is completed, the user must present the OM at their Family Health Center (Cesfam), along with the Special Vaccination Form that can be downloaded from the website https://vacunas.minsal.cl/, by clicking on the banner that says “Special Vaccines”, located at the bottom of the page and the epicrisis or clinical history. It is important to highlight that these vaccines are applied in Primary Care and are free of charge for patients.

Dr. Kral emphasized that “Despite the important achievements of our National Immunization Program, the pediatric part is more developed and up to date than that of adults, for example, we have the Neumo 23 vaccine for everyone over 65 years of age, with or without pathology , and unfortunately we have evidence that in our country the coverage rate does not exceed 30 or 40%.”

Special vaccines for particular situations

Among the special health conditions that require programmatic and extraprogrammatic vaccines are premature newborns with associated underlying pathologies, congenital disorders, leukemias, lymphomas, advanced cancers, primary immunodeficiencies, splenectomy, among others. These vaccines are specific for particular situations and can only be administered with the indication of a doctor and authorization from Seremi or the central level of the PNI.

2023-09-26 15:16:27
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