The Department of Universal Health and Public Health, in collaboration with the Department of Education, Culture and Sports, will begin to vaccinate boys and girls from 5 to 11 years old next Wednesday, December 15, in schools.
The Valencian Community will receive next Monday, December 13, 150.000 pediatric doses of the Pfizer vaccine that will allow to start this process of vaccination of the minor population against the coronavirus.
This was announced today by the Minister of Health, Ana Barceló, who has also reported that "we will begin with special education schools and immunocompromised minors and, subsequently, just as we have done with the general population, we will follow an order of age." , starting with those under 11, 10 and 9 years old.
«Later – continued Ana Barceló –, we will continue to descend in age groups to children of 8, 7, 6 and 5 years, until completing the vaccination of all the 330.000 boys and girls from 5 to 11 years of age in the Community. Valencian.
To carry out this vaccination process, the Department of Health will send vaccination teams, made up of health professionals, to educational centers in the Valencian Community and to special education centers.
Likewise, regarding the risk group of immunosuppressed minors, vaccination will be carried out through the health services of the hospitals where they are treated.
The objective is to bring the coronavirus vaccine to the minor population, and avoid the displacement, both of parents and students, to health centers, so that the vaccination process is carried out in the most organized, agile and rapid way possible. For this, the Health Departments will contact the educational centers to establish a calendar with the schedules and appointments.
Vaccination will require the prior authorization of the minor's fathers, mothers or legal guardians, so that only children who have such authorization will be immunized.
Finally, the educational centers will provide the most suitable spaces to host the mobile vaccination point, where health professionals will be installed to care for and vaccinate minors.
