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The Undersecretary of State and Health assured that vaccination for covid-19 will not have an age limit and that the elderly and patients with comorbidities will be a priority.
“The elderly, like patients with comorbidities, will be a priority for this Government, in fact, as it has always been a practice of this Government to prioritize the most vulnerable groups,” António Lacerda Sales told the press, highlighting that “there is no limit for years “.
At a press conference at Air Base No. 11 in Beja, Lacerda Sales insisted that the most vulnerable sectors of the population, such as the elderly, that is, those who reside in their homes, have been “a priority” for the Government , which it will maintain regarding the vaccination plan for covid-19.
We have the example of all the work we have done in homes, in residential structures for the elderly, and that is why it would not be now, and it will not be safe, that age will be a limit for vaccination ”., insured.
According to a proposal by specialists from the General Directorate of Health (DGS), advanced this Friday by “Expresso”, People between the ages of 50 and 75 with serious illnesses, nursing home employees and users, and health professionals involved in direct care should be the first to get vaccinated against covid-19., leaving out the elderly without diseases.
In reaction to the news published today, the coordinator of the “working group” created by the Government to define the entire vaccination plan against covid-19, Francisco Ramos, explained to Lusa today that the proposal presented by DGS “has no limit old”. for people admitted to homes “.
Residents of nursing homes, of any age, employees of these institutions, health professionals, security forces and elderly with severe comorbidities are the priority groups proposed by the DGS for the covid-19 vaccine, declared Francisco Ramos.
The Undersecretary of State and Health said today, at BA11, where he visited a reception center for patients with covid-19, that the Government received a proposal from the DGS “regarding vaccination.”includes all the elderly in households, without age limits “, as well as” professionals from these households, health professionals, authorities, patients with comorbidities“.
“So this is the reality of the proposal we received“, which” has not yet been analyzed by the Ministry of Health “, but which,” in due course, thoughtful and serene “, will be the object of analysis and” political decision “, he said.
The official admitted that “there are certain vaccines” that, due to technical criteria, have “an indication for certain age groups”, but that “is the only limitation”, because “for this Government there is no age limit,” he insisted. .
Lacerda Sales, who was accompanied by the Undersecretary of State and National Defense Jorge Seguro Sanches, also stressed that the vaccination process, which is “very complex”, is “being combined with all the countries of the European Union” and, later, “internally it will have a strategy.”
“Obviously we are not going to vaccinate all at the same time and the vaccines will arrive in ‘tranches’, so there will be priority groups due to these vaccines,” he said, leaving a guarantee: “We will wait for the batches to arrive gradually.” “There will be doses to vaccinate to have as much coverage as possible.”
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