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Firefighters are responsible for more than 85% of pre-hospital aid, recalling that during the pandemic, if it were not for firefighters, many would not have been able to reach the hospital.
“Vaccination is a marathon,” says Eduardo Cabrita, who warns that this The races have well-defined priorities and firefighters are at the forefront of the priority of vaccination against covid-19, “in all fairness”.
The Ministry of the Interior maintains, in a note, that the The order of vaccination of these 15,000 firefighters was defined based on operational criteria. of the National Emergency and Civil Protection Authority and covers the universe of volunteers, deminers and municipalities.
The president of the National Association of Professional Firefighters, Fernando Curto, accepts that the priority is for firefighters who deal directly with covid-19, but asks that “everyone be vaccinated.”
The president of the League of Firefighters says that he does not agree that only 15 thousand firefighters are vaccinated at this stage, which corresponds to about 50% of the national firefighting system.
Jaime Marta Soares considers that force is “a whole” and calls for the vaccination of the remaining firefighters to be “immediate”, for example, when starting the administration of the second dose of vaccine to firefighters who are now beginning to get vaccinated.
The Ministry under the tutelage of Eduardo Cabrita indicates that the vaccination sites, in several provinces of each of the 18 districts of the continent, were established according to the geographical distribution of the 15,000 firefighters.
According to MAI, Lisbon and Porto are the districts with the most firefighters that will be vaccinated against covid-19, 2,181 and 1,916 respectively, followed by Viseu (1,025), Aveiro (958), Coimbra (945), Leiria (945). , Braga (910), Santarém (842), Setúbal (829) and Vila Real (687).
In the Guarda district, 644 firefighters will be vaccinated, in Faro 617, in Castelo Branco 500, in Bragança 477, in Portalegre 388, in Viana do Castelo 347, in Beja 358 and in Évora 326.
The firefighter vaccination program began at the Damaia Health Center, in the municipality of Amadora, with the presence of the Ministers of Internal Administration, Eduardo Cabrita, and of Health, Marta Temido, of the State Secretariat for Internal Administration , Patrícia Gaspar, and the Coordinating Secretary of State for the fight against the pandemic in the Lisbon and Tagus Valley Region, Duarte Cordeiro.
