Andalusia defends its vaccination protocol for the injection of the second dose to professionals under age 60 who received a first puncture from AstraZeneca, and that happens by not forcing the signing of the informed consent, which requires Health, neither for the second prick with the Anglo-Swedish serum nor with Pfizer. In this community, which began last Tuesday afternoon to vaccinate this group, the form is offered for both preparations – not only AstraZeneca, as determined by the Ministry of Health – and, in addition, in case it is not signed but The interested party agrees to be vaccinated, the second dose of their choice is administered, leaving a record of it in the computer system of the Andalusian Health Service.
More information
From the Junta de Andalucía it is not considered that it is contravening the agreement adopted last week by the Ministry of Health and the autonomous communities So what was endorsed by the Bioethics Committee. The Andalusian president, Juan Manuel Moreno, stressed this morning that the community has a “health obligation” to administer vaccines, regardless of whether the person who is to be inoculated signs the informed consent or not. For the popular leader, this decision does not imply contradicting the Health mandate that requires such prior authorization, but rather implies “applying common sense”. “The majority are signing the consent, although there are some cases that are not, and the majority are opting for AstraZeneca”, he assured.
The Andalusian Ministry of Health has always been a strong advocate of completing with AstraZeneca the guideline for essential professionals under 60 years of age who had already taken the first dose of this preparation. The president of the Board himself even threatened the Ministry of Health with injecting it on his own account to those who voluntarily agreed, if the 12-week interval between the first and second laying was reached without a solution on the part of the Central government. The Board has appealed to its own technicians, as well as the reports of the World Health Organization, the European Medicines Agency and the Spanish, which have endorsed completing the vaccination cycle with the serum of the Anglo-Swedish pharmaceutical company , to defend the second injection with AstraZeneca for those under 60 who had already received the first.
The protocol published by the Junta de Andalucía on the Andavac covid-19 vaccination portal set at point 14 that “at the vaccination points, a document will be offered to sign a written authorization regarding the choice of vaccination, although by voluntarily attending their appointment, it is understood that the person agrees with said vaccination. If the person refuses to sign the consent, the chosen vaccination will also proceed, noting their decision in the medical record ”. The Ministry of Health is placing special emphasis on reminding health districts that it is not necessary to request consent, according to sources from the Andalusian Health Service, and insist that the mere presence at the vaccination point, attending to the summons sent by the SAS, it shows a manifest willingness to get the vaccine.
In Andalusia, there are 259,071 essential professionals under the age of 60 who received the first injection of AstraZeneca at the time, before its suspension was ordered. This Tuesday they began to be vaccinated with the second dose in the provinces of Seville and Cádiz and this Wednesday the process has already been extended to the rest of the Andalusian territory.
–
