Annual Flu and COVID Vaccination Campaign in Madrid: Focus on Nursing Homes and Primary Care Centers

They will be administered in nursing homes, Primary Care centers and the Vaccination Center of the Community of Madrid

The Community of Madrid will begin the annual joint vaccination campaign against flu and covid on October 16, which this year will last until January 31. The priority of the regional Executive is the elderly, so they will be administered first to those who live in residences, those over 65 years of age, as well as health and social health personnel.

Once this population group is covered, it will be expanded to the rest of the segments with recommendations, such as people between 60 and 64 years old or those under 60 years old with underlying pathologies, as well as pregnant women. To do this, the Community of Madrid has acquired 1.6 million doses, 100,000 more than in 2022, with an investment of 19 million euros. They are divided into 850,000 adjuvanted quadrivalent influenza vaccines, intended for those aged 65 or over, and another 750,000 quadrivalent flu vaccines for the rest of the people targeted by this campaign.

Regarding protection against covid, doses adapted to the new Ómicron variants (XBB1.5) will be administered, following national and international recommendations.

In this sense, it is the Ministry of Health that assigns them to all the autonomous communities and, from the Madrid General Directorate of Public Health, they will be distributed to the different immunization points.

The process will be carried out again in nursing homes, Primary Care centers and the Vaccination Center of the Community of Madrid. Health personnel will do so at their workplaces, and in the case of mutual benefit members and social health personnel at the point set up at the Enfermera Isabel Zendal public Hospital.

This season, children between 6 months and 4 years of age are included for the first time in the campaign against seasonal flu. For this, there are 30,000 intranasal children’s antiflu doses.

Likewise, immunization against respiratory syncytial virus (RSV) will begin on October 2, to reduce the impact of bronchiolitis in babies under 6 months. In this sense, the Madrid region has been a pioneer in Spain in this initiative that can be carried out in the public hospitals of La Paz, Gregorio Marañón, Niño Jesús and 12 de Octubre in the capital, and in Puerta de Hierro Majadahonda thanks to the 50,000 doses acquired by the Madrid Executive. Last season, bronchiolitis caused more than 3,600 hospital admissions and 300 ICU admissions.

Photo Archive: vaccination Hospital Príncipe de Asturias in Alcalá de Henares

2023-09-24 04:07:43
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