© Sandra Cartaso
From Monday the PAMI vaccinates its members against the flu.
Members of the Comprehensive Medical Care Program (PAMI) will be able, from Monday, to apply the flu vaccine freely and free of charge in the network of more than 6,000 authorized pharmacies throughout the countryreported from the entity.
According to the agency’s statement, they can be vaccinated without having to take a shift in advance, at any authorized PAMI pharmacy, and with the only requirement of presenting their ID and social work credential.
Affiliated persons can also be immunized in hospitals, health centers and throughout the public health network distributed throughout the national territory.
Who needs a medical order?
Meanwhile, those people under 65 years of age, affiliated with PAMI, must attend with the order of their doctor or family doctor.
PAMI reported that people 65 years of age or older, health personnel, pregnant people (in each pregnancy and in any trimester of gestation, puerperal women (until discharge from maternity -maximum 10 days- if they did not receive the vaccine during pregnancy) children 6 to 24 months (must receive two doses separated by at least 4 weeks, except those who have already received two doses in previous years).
Those who do need a medical order issued by their primary care physician are people between the ages of 2 and 64 with risk factors. And the risk factors are obesity, diabetes, respiratory and heart diseases, congenital or acquired immunodeficiencies, oncohematological disease, transplantation and/or people with chronic kidney failure on dialysis, among others.
The National State and the PAMI
Like every year, it is the national State that carries out the flu vaccination. The Ministry of Health of the Nation is in charge of coordinating the purchase and its distribution in organisms, provinces and municipalities.
This year, flu vaccination was brought forward to take care of the health of the elderly, so PAMI has a priority place in the distribution of vaccines.
For more information on influenza vaccination, you can access www.pami.org.ar/antigripal