05/16/2021 12:01
Clarín.com
Cities
Updated 05/16/2021 12:01 PM
On these days, the registration will be opened in the City of Buenos Aires for the vaccination against the coronavirus of
people between 55 and 59 years old with risk factors
.
The exact date depends on the amount of vaccines that are arriving in the country and that are destined for Capital.
To save time, it is important to
obtain a certificate that proves the prevalent health condition or disease
.
The immunization campaign for the population aged 18 to 59 with risk factors will be
simultaneous to that of strategic personnel
, which includes security forces, firefighters, personnel from emergency and human development areas, teachers and non-teachers, among others. .
Between both groups (Stage 4 and Stage 5) there are around 275,000 people, according to official information: 130,000 are strategic personnel and
145,000 are people between the ages of 18 and 59 with risk factors
.
As is happening among adults over 60 years of age, registration will be segmented by five years:
the first to register will be those between 55 and 59 years of age
.
The population with risk factors in the City is 145,000 people.
Photo Andrés D'Elía
The requirements to sign up
What are the requirements to sign up?
At the time of registration online or through 147,
a sworn statement
will have to be made
.
Afterwards,
a medical certificate or proof
will have to be
presented
.
Before
Clarín's
consultation
, the City Ministry of Health explained that there is no single model for this certificate.
Simply, it is necessary for a doctor to prove the prevalent disease or condition of the person requesting to be vaccinated.
"Evidence must be
given of the underlying disease,
" they explained from Health.
And they confirmed to
Clarín
that the certificate can be physical or electronic.
"It is not specified, it is indistinct," they assured.
Before vaccination, a certificate must be presented indicating the prevalent condition or disease.
Photo Guillermo Rodríguez Adami
Risk factors for which children under 60 may be vaccinated in the City
Since the National Vaccination Plan began, the list of risk factors has been modified.
For example, last week the Ministry of Health of the Nation incorporated cancer patients, those with active tuberculosis and people with intellectual and developmental disabilities.
The list of risk conditions or chronic diseases prioritized for this vaccination stage, as detailed on the Buenos Aires government website, is as follows:
- Obesity:
body mass index (BMI) greater than 35 kg / m2.
-
Cardiovascular disease:
heart failure, coronary heart disease, valvular heart disease, cardiomyopathy, pulmonary hypertension.
- Moderate or severe respiratory
disease
:
chronic obstructive pulmonary disease (COPD), cystic fibrosis, interstitial lung disease, severe asthma.
- Diabetes
- Chronic Kidney Disease:
including people on chronic dialysis.
- Cirrhosis
- People with acquired immunosuppression
- HIV / AIDS
- Transplanted:
people with solid organ transplants and people on the transplant waiting list.
- Oncological and oncohematological patients with recent diagnosis or active disease:
less than one year from diagnosis, current treatment or having received immunosuppressive treatment in the last 12 months, relapsing or uncontrolled disease.
- Active tuberculosis:
new cases or relapse, diagnosed in the last 12 months.
- People with Down Syndrome
- Intellectual and developmental
disability
:
that disables the individual capacities to execute, understand or sustain personal care measures over time to avoid the contagion or transmission of Covid 19;
and / or people who are institutionalized, in homes or long-term residences;
and / or require professional home care or home hospitalization.
How it is organized in Province
In the Province, residents with pre-existing diseases have the possibility of registering since December.
The procedure is simple.
You have to enter the official website and complete the identity data;
residence, how the population group to which it belongs prefer to be contacted.
In this case,
the risk group between 18 and 59 years old
.
The registration on the VacunatePBA page already constitutes an affidavit.
But people must also present a certificate proving their disease or condition before getting vaccinated.
The Tecnópolis vaccination center.
Photo Andrés D'Elía
According to data from the provincial Ministry of Health -updated to May 11- first doses of the vaccine have been applied in
40.07% of people between 50 and 59 years old with comorbidities.
So far they have vaccinated 179,805 out of a total of 448,752 registered.
In the age group 40 to 49 years, the percentage of people with risk factors vaccinated is lower: 20.33%.
They are 56,055 out of a total of 275,679 registered.
NS
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