Valeriu Gheorghita reveals a last-minute decision that was taken for millions of Romanians from all over the country even in the midst of wave 5 of infections generated by the Coronavirus, with the aim of promoting vaccination among people who have not been immunized with the first dose so far.
Valeriu Gheorghita explains below the steps that will be taken to increase the level of vaccination among the population, but it is likely that only after the 9-month-old COVID certificates expire, i.e. from February 1, at least booster dose vaccination will increase.
"The most important approach we have is together with colleagues from the European Center for Disease Control, colleagues from the Institute of Public Health and the Ministry of Health.
Just tomorrow we will have a preliminary working meeting, through which we want, on January 27, to organize a training through which staff from the Public Health Directorates, in which family doctors from the county can also participate, will be involved in promoting the benefits and importance of vaccination, characterizing the type of community to be messaged, and identifying those who can contribute to this effort.
Practically, it will be an applied training, precisely because we want information and communication to be decentralized at the level of each community and, through those who also have credibility and know what they are doing, to be able to further promote the benefits vaccination.
We are particularly interested in the category of the vulnerable, the elderly or those with chronic conditions, including children in the 5-11 age group. As I said, we invite those who have chronic conditions to be vaccinated, especially in the first stage.
Here we include obesity, diabetes, cardiovascular diseases, hematological or solid organ oncological conditions, chronic kidney diseases, lung diseases, malformations; all these conditions can increase the risk of severe form even in children. That is precisely why we want to better protect people, the vulnerable, in the face of serious forms of illness, the risk of hospitalization and death."
