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The operation is underway: housebound people will be vaccinated with the third dose in their home Israel today

2021-08-12T13:35:37.269Z


Until now, patients who had difficulty getting the vaccine were transported by ambulance to the clinics.


The third vaccination campaign for homeless people has started:

Meuhedet is the first HMO to start the campaign, two weeks after the possibility of giving a third vaccine to the population over the age of 60 was approved. For them to come and get vaccinated on their own.

To date, patients who had difficulty reaching the vaccine were transported by ambulance to the immunization clinics and some received the vaccine without being required to get out of the vehicle.


The vaccination at home is done as part of a complex logistical operation that includes the arrival of a qualified nurse with resuscitation equipment that includes a defibrillator, oxygen and adrenaline.

"The assessments for administering corona vaccine at home are complex," explains Rachel Korman, director of the home hospitalization unit in the Jerusalem district of Meuhedet.

"Our goal is to make the vaccine accessible to as many of our policyholders as possible in order to protect their health, even if they are confined to their home due to their medical condition, so we have chosen to invest a lot of resources in an operation that is both logistically and medically," she said.

Korman added: "These are people who are regularly treated by the home hospitalization unit, as part of a rehabilitation procedure that is a substitute for hospitalization. They are very happy that we are also able to make the third dose of the vaccine available to them."

A third dose of vaccine to the house // Photo: Reuters,

Haim (Roni) Erlichman, 69, from the Har Nof neighborhood of Jerusalem, underwent complicated hip replacement surgery, was released to his home two days ago and is defined as confined, and is unable to reach the HMO on his own to receive the vaccine.

Despite the difficulties of mobility, it was clear to Haim that he was not giving up the third dose, "I received the first two doses and it was clear to me that if the Ministry of Health's directive was to receive a third dose I would not give it up, despite my complex medical condition. "Or I will have to wait a few weeks until I can get to Meuhedet's clinic, and I was very excited when a representative of the HMO called and informed me that the vaccine would reach me."

At the beginning of the week, it was published in "Israel Today" that the transparent patients will discuss with the Ministry of Health about the third-dose vaccine at home, with one of the options that came up being to vaccinate them at home with the flu and corona vaccine at the same time.

These are about 105,000 people, who were vaccinated at a later stage in the vaccination campaign, so five months have not yet passed since the second vaccination of most of them.

Source: israelhayom

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