The president of the Generalitat Valenciana, Carlos Mazonassured that experts from the Ministry of Health will “immediately” decree the use of masks In centers of health and hospitals “if circumstances arise”.
However, he stressed that this protocol has not been adopted. “At present no decision has been made, this means that there is still no requirements so you must use this mask. Not yet,” he stressed.
This is what the head of the Consell said this Sunday, in front of the media during his visit to the Moors and Christians festival in El Campello (Alicante), regarding the statements of the Minister of Health, Mónica García, who last Friday did not rule out that masks return to health centers and hospitals if the indicators linked to flu And COVID-19[feminine over the coming fall and winter months.
“This – the use of masks – will be decreed by the experts of the Ministry of Health”, insisted Mazón, who clarified that this measure “may” not affect “all” health centers and would only be applied ” in some”. “If circumstances arose, and our team of expertsSo we will proceed this way. Without a doubt,” he said.
In this sense, he declared that “in any case, it will be preventhas inform and we will react based on the data obtained, above all with rigor, information and transparency towards all citizens. “For now, normality and tranquility,” he added.
The Minister of Health, Mónica García, said during the press conference following the Interterritorial Council of the National Health System (CISNS) that she was working with the autonomous communities in a document which establishes common criteria for action in the face of influenza and Covid-19 so that “it is not necessarily the Ministry of Health which tells communities what they must also do” and which “will take its final form” on October 17 at the Public Health Commission.
Flu vaccination in schools
Given the start this Monday of the flu vaccination campaign for groups at risk, Mazón emphasized that “for first time» you are going to get vaccinated at school centers “in order not to collapse health centers”. “We go directly to schools so that all students, whose families voluntarily request it, are vaccinated.”
“I think that this effort to mobilize and bring vaccination closer to people, to students, that the ministry is making is important. And in any case, what we are doing is a great organizational effort,” he concluded.
