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From the beginning of January 10 thousand vaccines a day: the Plan of the Region

The new phase, the final one of the fight against Coronavirus, comes alive. There Emilia Romagna region it is indeed ready to kick off to first phase of the vaccination campaign, that will start in early January, as soon as the first vaccine, the one produced by Pfizer, will be delivered on the territory.

From number of doctors involved to distribution of administration centers, each procedure has already been defined to allow the vaccination of those that have been considered – and thus indicated by the ministry – the categories to which it is more urgent administer the vaccine: all staff of the hospitals, public and private, e of the territorial social and health facilities, from health to technicians, to administrative, as well as general practitioners and free choice pediatricians; i volunteers and employees of associations and social transport emergency activities; the whole world of residential facilities for the elderly, both operators that guests.

In this first phase the people who potentially, given that there is no compulsory nature, can be vaccinated, are about 180 thousand, for a total of over 360,000 administrations; are in fact provided due dosi for each vaccination, starting precisely from the beginning of January e within a maximum of 46 days (23 for the vaccine and 23 for the booster);but it is estimated that they are enough 18 for each of the operations. We therefore speak of a average of about 10,000 vaccinations per day.

An impressive vaccination campaign, which the Region, in agreement with the local health authorities, has already defined in every aspect. And which for now has received maximum support: from the first questions on vaccination intentions sent to health personnel, almost all, 96%, expressed their will to be vaccinated.

The operating procedures

Per each province a single point of administration, with the exception of the province of Bologna which will be able to count on two points, to which must be added the reference point for the Ausl di Imola.

The vaccination centers, which will be defined in the next few days, will have to be positioned outside hospitals, or in any case in areas where the passage of users is neither in nor out; it will also be possible to equip outdoor areas, for example with the tensile structures provided by Civil Protection and the army, and eventually it will be possible to resort tosports hall O exhibition centers.

The structures must be easily accessible and have ample parking, in each one must be guaranteed presence of an emergency vehicle and will all be divided into several spaces, one for each phase of the vaccination: a first area of hospitality, followed by that for carrying out the entire phase of administration (the user will not take more than 5 minutes for these first operations), then the area of vaccination real (with an expected time of 5 minutes) and finally that for thepost-vaccination observation, where you will be held for 10 minutes.

Overall, as regards vaccination for health workers, they are about 300 people currently scheduled for vaccination operations throughout the region among doctors, nurses, social and health workers, administrators and volunteers. Of course, on the basis of new needs, the staff can be increased.

We will work by team, each made up of at least one doctor, who will act as a contact person, a minimum of five between nurses and health assistants and no less than two health and social workers, to which an administrative and a minimum of four volunteers, for example the Civil Protection, who will take care of all pre-session operations and the management of the post-vaccination observation area.

Each administration center can count on more medical teams at work, and the Health Trusts are also left with the possibility both to modify the numerical ratios between doctors and nurses and to provide for larger working groups; in case of difficulty in finding volunteers, the Companies must contact their employees.

Each team will work 6 days a week, and no more than 8 hours a day, with a minimum of 300 people vaccinated each shift; if necessary, it will be possible to structure the shifts of the different teams seven days out of seven, also in afternoon.

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