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The first dose against covid it just gets in some health centers in Zaragoza and on specific days of the week after the Department of Health of the Government of Aragon I have opted for centralize the start of the pattern in specific Primary Care centers. The decision, already effective as this newspaper has learned, has been adopted with the argument of optimize resources and personnel at a time when immunization is already well advanced and few people come to be inoculated for the first time.
That is, the people of Zaragoza included among the 135,400 Aragonese who have not yet protected themselves against the covid they cannot go to any health center if they decide to change their mind and put on the puncture. Specifically, in the health sector II the first dose is given only in Torrero-La Paz and in Rebolería. In this case, for example, no one is vaccinated for the first time in Las Fuentes Norte. In the case of sector III, the dose is administered in the health centers of Bombarda, Delicias Norte, Delicias Sur, Miralbueno, Oliver, Univérsitas and Valdefierro. That is, the residents of Utebo or Casetas have to go down to the capital if they want to be vaccinated.
700 vaccines first vaccines a week in Aragon
This unification of centers is already enabled on the Salud Informa website and in the self-appointment mobile application, in such a way that the user from Zaragoza who wants to be vaccinated with the first dose will automatically see the health center and the date for ask for a date. The day is determined because in the chosen centers initial doses are not given every day, but, generally, it is done for two days a week.
Despite this, there are users who have problems with the citation because, as they have referred to this newspaper, they cannot get a date. The system assigns them the center and in theory also the day available, but when selecting it the page gives them an error and the message that there are no appointments available.
The unification of Health only affects Zaragoza capital, since In the rest of Aragon, the same work continues and the first doses are given in all Primary Care. Of course, normally two days a week are also offered for this. Currently, the vaccination rate is very slow in the community and the great concern now is in the unvaccinated.
According to data from the Department of Health, They are putting about 700 first doses a week throughout Aragon, a very low figure compared to the high figures for the months of May or June. In fact, this situation has resulted in up to 30,000 doses (only 1% of those received in total) having expired in the community. This situation, given the low demand for the opening of new guidelines, is what has led the Ministry of Health to unify the work in order to optimize material and personnel resources.
Yes, second and third doses are administered
Talking about the memory pricks, no changes. These doses (second and third) continue to be put in all health centers, since they are people who do have the immunization schedule open and, therefore, an agenda already created.
For its part, the decision to centralize the first dose in a few health centers in Zaragoza some health workers did not like it, who consider that the measure “does not help” the furthest behind. “If it is already difficult to capture the unvaccinated, if we send them to specific points we do not help,” a doctor told this newspaper yesterday.
Professionals are more likely to have doses in their refrigerators just in case, thus making it easier for any citizen who attends to be vaccinated. They point out, at the same time, that the decision is not “very akin” to the active recruitment campaign they wanted to do and they doubt that it will work. According to data from the Ministry of Health, in the last two days just over 100 people over the age of 12 have been vaccinated in Aragon for the first time against covid.
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