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José Ángel Ponce: "the request we make is that health centers be opened in the afternoon, both to reduce the pressure of care in the mornings and to relieve the health personnel when carrying out this vaccination campaign ". The Councilor for Health of the City of Lorca, José Ángel Ponce has requested the Murcian Health Service to advance the vaccination campaign against influenza in the municipality, and has made available to the regional health authority, for study and consideration, municipal facilities so that they can be used as spaces in which to carry out specific vaccination points.

In addition, it has requested the opening, in the afternoon, of the health centers of the municipality. Ponce recalled that "vaccination is an effective and safe tool to prevent influenza and its complications.

This year, the temporal coincidence with the COVID-19 pandemic, makes flu vaccination especially important in the most vulnerable population and their contacts , to reduce the complications caused by both diseases and avoid overloading the health system ". The Mayor explained that "for this reason, from the City Council of Lorca we ask that the situation of the health centers of the municipality be taken into account and that the flu vaccination campaign be carried out.

We want to insist that a organization of agendas in health centers and that the establishment of specific vaccination points be studied to avoid crowds ". "In this sense, the request we make is that the health centers be opened in the afternoon, both to reduce the pressure of care in the morning and to relieve the health personnel when carrying out this vaccination campaign ". Ponce Díaz has detailed that "in addition, taking into account the situation of our health centers, what we also ask is that specific vaccination points be enabled, for which we make available to the Murcian Health Service, once again, municipal facilities for carry out this task outside the health centers, since most are in the red level ". The Councilor for Health has shown that "the objective of this request made by the City Council is, therefore, to advance the vaccination campaign and to establish a good organization so that the population can access this service from the first week of October and do it in a massive way, taking advantage of the fact that there is greater awareness as a result of the coronavirus health crisis ". José Ángel Ponce recalled that "vaccination is recommended primarily for people at high risk of complications in the event of suffering from the flu and for people in contact with these high-risk groups as they can be transmitted. Thus, the population groups in which flu vaccination is recommended, according to recommendations approved by the National Public Health Commission, are people over 65 years of age, as well as the most sensitive population groups: minors from 6 months of age , adults with chronic diseases of cardiovascular, neurological or respiratory type; pregnant women; as well as health personnel and workers in public services.

Source: Ayuntamiento de Lorca