THE Walk-in flu and COVID-19 vaccination campaign in health centers activated in the Balearic Islands, seven in Mallorca, two in Menorca, seven in Ibiza and one in Formentera, begins this Monday, November 4.
This Monday, the vaccination campaign against influenza and COVID-19 opens without appointment for the 2024-2025 season in authorized health centers on the four islands. The main objective of this campaign is improve coverage levels across all risk groups which were recorded during previous campaigns.
In MajorcaPeople wishing to be vaccinated against the seasonal virus can come Monday to Friday from 2:00 p.m. to 7:30 p.m. and Saturday from 9:30 a.m. to 6:30 p.m. The following centers:
- CS Higher School (Palma)
- CS S’Escorxador (Palma)
- CS Son Pisà (Palma)
- CS Es Blanquer (Inca)
- CS Manacor
- CS Santa Ponça
- CS Trencators (S’Arenal de Llucmajor)
In Minorcayou can go:
- Mateu Orfila General Hospital: Tuesday and Thursday from 3:30 p.m. to 8:00 p.m. and Monday, Wednesday, Friday and Saturday from 8:30 a.m. to 2:30 p.m.
- CS Canal Salat (Ciutadella), Monday to Friday from 3:30 p.m. to 8:00 p.m. and Saturday from 8:30 a.m. to 2:30 p.m.
In Ibizayou can contact:
- Can Misses Hospital: Saturday from 9:00 a.m. to 7:00 p.m.
- CS Can Misses, CS San Josep de sa Talaia and CS Sant Joan de Labritja: Monday to Friday from 1:00 p.m. to 2:00 p.m.
- CS Es Viver, CS Vila and CS Santa Eulària des Riu: Monday to Friday from 2:00 p.m. to 7:30 p.m.
- And, in Formenteraat CS Formentera: Monday to Thursday from 2:00 p.m. to 7:30 p.m. and Friday from 9:00 a.m. to 2:00 p.m.
You can also make an appointment by calling InfoSalut Connecta (971 22 00 00) or on the CAIB flu and Covid-19 vaccination campaign website.
TARGET population
The vaccination campaign is aimed at all people over 60 and those below this age who present one of the established risk conditions. In total, this target population in the Balearic Islands is made up of 606,685 people in the case of flu –486,040 in Mallorca, 47,434 in Menorca and 77,204 in Ibiza and Formentera– and 458,323 people in the case of COVID-19 –366,549 in Mallorca, 36,877 in Menorca and 54,897 in Ibiza and Formentera–.
Vaccination is recommended for people aged 60 or over; people over 65 admitted to retirement homes, centers for disabled people or admitted to closed establishments; and people, from the age of 12, who suffer from a risk illness such as diabetes, morbid obesity, chronic cardiovascular, neurological or respiratory diseases, kidney or liver diseases, including alcoholism, serious neuromuscular diseases, immunocompromised people, including those whose immune systems are weakened by the AIDS virus (HIV) or by medications, as well as transplant recipients, celiacs, people with cancer, chronic inflammatory diseases and those who suffer from disorders or illnesses involving cognitive dysfunction, such as Down syndrome. or dementia.
Vaccination is also recommended for pregnant women at any time during pregnancy and up to six months after delivery; people who live with others with a high degree of immunosuppression (transplant recipients, people with chronic kidney disease, or people infected with HIV); smokers; staff of health and social centers, public and private, as well as students on internship; workers in essential public services, such as state security forces and agencies, both national and local, firefighters and civil protection services; professionals from daycare centers and early childhood education centers; and people who work on poultry, pig, mink or wildlife farms or operations, to avoid cross-contamination of human and animal viruses.
As a novelty, this year began the pilot plan in schools, as well as universal vaccination of children between six and 59 months (four years and 11 months).
The universal vaccination of this group, already implemented during the last flu campaign, is explained by the fact that children of this age frequently suffer from the flu, and often very seriously. In addition, they are usually the main transmitters of the influenza virus to other target groups. This not only ensures individual protection for the minor, but also protection of vulnerable people around them against contagion.
The vaccination schedule for these healthy children is a single dose. Younger children, aged six months to two years, will receive an inactivated injectable vaccine. The rest of the children in the age group, two years to four years and 11 months, will receive an intranasal flu vaccine.
COVID-19 vaccination
As in previous anti-flu campaigns, since the appearance of COVID-19, in centers dependent on the Health Service, people for whom this is indicated will be offered the possibility of administering both vaccines, against influenza and against COVID-19.
Double vaccination is also offered to the entire population with at-risk pathologies from the age of 12, to pregnant women, to people living with people with a high degree of immunosuppression or to elderly people with higher-risk illnesses, to essential service personnel and essential service workers. health or social health centers, with the sole exception of students in training, for whom vaccination against influenza is the only recommended.
Finally, children aged six months to 12 years who present one of the following situations – as well as the people they live with – are also invited to be vaccinated against COVID-19: transplanted from hematopoietic parents; primary and acquired immunodeficiencies or treated with immunosuppressants, and those suffering from serious chronic cardiovascular, respiratory, neurological or neuromuscular diseases.
