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The Health and Family Counselor, Jesus Aguirre, assured yesterday that Andalusia is vaccinating to migrants in an irregular administrative situation “Regardless of the fact that in the protocols of the Ministry – of Health – it did not come”, because “we We do not ask if they are registered or not, and as public health, what interests us is to have the largest volume of population in Andalusia vaccinated ».
In response to a question posed in parliamentary committee by Adelante Andalucía deputy Maria Isabel Mora, the counselor recalled that in the last update of the vaccination program against the covid of Andalusia, In addition to the nine priority groups, another one is included, groups of difficult access and rapid need for protection., including for reasons of public health and optimization of efficiency in health resources, “with vaccines from Janssen, from 18 to 79 years, and from 80 years with vaccines from Pfizer and Moderna.”
“Is about inmates and people from penitentiary institutions, stevedores, erasmus students, vulnerable groups from the social and economic point of view, settlements, displaced persons, immigrants without regularization, people with difficult vaccines such as sea workers or aid workers who go to high-risk countries, “Aguirre listed, who added that” regardless of the standard that the central government is setting, we in Andalusia are including them with the Janssen vaccine preferentially».
Mora replied that he asks him exactly about the foreigners who live in Andalusia and are in an irregular administrative situation and without a health card, to add that for this specific group «they are using the Voluntary services of the Table of the Third Sector to be able to contact them and give them vaccinations “, in fact” in Huelva they are doing it with the Red Cross and in Almería with Andalucía Acoge “.
«What this crisis shows is lots of loopholes within utilities and one is to reflect on the gap that in the end has had to leave the mediation in the hands of volunteers to be able to locate this population that in many towns the municipalities do not even let them register, “said Adelante’s deputy, who indicated that” these data could have been used for their vaccination. ”
Thus, Mora asked Aguirre if these migrants «they will be given the health card when they are vaccinated and if it is possible that its coordination with other ministries pushes that, having already all the data, it is possible to register them ».
Aguirre responded that on this issue “we go hand in hand” and stressed that “regardless of the fact that the ministry’s protocols did not come, we are doing it” and “who best knows where they are is the Third Sector». Finally, and when cross-examined about whether he will undertake to give them the health card, Aguirre replied that «vaccine that we put, data that we collect“, To add, on the commitment that later they register, that he does” the part that corresponds to him on the issue of health “and elaborated that” they are priority groups “that are interested in having vaccinated as soon as possible”.
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