The centres to be created to speed up the population's vaccination against Covid-19 must have the capacity to vaccinate around 50 people per hour, an emergency room and a doctor in case of adverse reactions.
According to the guidance of the Directorate-General for Health (DGS), these Covid-19 Vaccination Centres (CVC) must have, as a reference, one or more vaccination modules, each with five posts, so that each nurse is able to vaccinate one person every 6-10 minutes.
They must be spacious and airy, have a cold storage adequate to the specifics of each vaccine, health professionals with training to vaccinate and act in case of anaphylactic reactions, and emergency equipment to treat these situations.
CVCs, which may be adapted from vaccination points already existing in the National Health Service or from a new infrastructure, must also have access to the National Vaccination Registration and the Management Platform
The DGS guideline that defines these centres stresses that they are necessary to accelerate the population's vaccination against Covid-19.
They must be constituted in accordance with the regional planning of the Regional Health Administrations, under the coordination of the Clusters of Health Centres (ACES) and Local Health Units (ULS) and in line with the local health authorities, municipalities and other partners locations.
In addition to having to be installed in spacious and airy spaces, they must be easily accessible to people with reduced mobility, have two accesses (entrance and exit), easy parking and access by public transport and be organised to operate in a fluid way, avoiding the crowding of people and ensuring the distance between them.
DGS also advises that, according to the size and geographical location of the CVC, the need for an ambulance to remain on standby is assessed.
As for operation and organization, CVCs must have a reception area, an admission place with service points and access to the computer system to validate the data of the people to be vaccinated and a pre-vaccination waiting area that allows at least 25 people, with the respective safety distance and where the vaccination questionnaire must be filled out.
They must also have individual dedicated areas for vaccination, a post-vaccination surveillance area, where each vaccinated user must remain at least 30 minutes, and with direct access to the outside, plus a vaccine preparation room.
DGS also advises that they have a break area for health professionals and other CVC professionals, with the necessary conditions for food, and sanitary facilities.
As for human resources, the guidance indicates that each module of five vaccination posts must have a doctor / nurse for coordination, five technical assistants for administrative support, two pharmacy technicians / nurses for vaccine preparation, at least five nurses for the administration and one to two nurses to monitor the users after being vaccinated.
There should also be a doctor for emergency situations, and two operational assistants to carry out cleaning and disinfection.
DGS argues that the use of volunteers should be considered to management of the circulation of people to be vaccinated along the circuit in CVCs , “especially for people with disabilities, with reduced mobility, or non-Portuguese speakers”.
According to information available at 08:10 today on the covid19estamoson.gov.pt website, 618,393 have açready been vaccinated with thier first dose, 266,716 have completed both vaccinations.
Original article available in Portuguese at http://postal.pt/
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For your info a friend of ours was vaccinated at the Centro de saude on Saturday and had to wait 30 mins after the jab.
I had to wait for 15 minutes under supervision after my AZ jab in the UK.
I don't think there were "many" cases of people passing out - I haven't heard or read of any. Precautionary I think, but OK with me.
It just gets worse! The recommendation is 15 minutes supervision for EVERYONE after receiving the jab, as there have been many cases of people passing out shortly after receiving it. Yet you were allowed to drive off onto a public road effectively under the influence of a brand new drug, putting not only yourself, but every other road user in the vicinity at risk.
Regarding the death figures, there is no direct link to the results, you need to submit a request for VAERS on the CDC site here https://wonder.cdc.gov/vaers.html
And this is where things get strange. My session timed out since I did the search yesterday, I refreshed the page (thus re-submitting all the same information) and now the death figure has mysteriously dropped from 2790 to 960. Which one was correct? Whichever one is true, I can't imagine how difficult it will have been explaining to the bereaved how this treatment that was supposed to "help" ended up killing their loved one.
This is Portugal and the health service here is critically under funded. There is a shortage of vaccine and qualified staff to administer it .
A link would be appreciated.
Anyone who was driving was asked to wait for 10 mins.
According to the American CDC website, 2790 deaths (in the US) up until 25 Feb.
And you know this because? Do you have a crystal ball or some other way of seeing into the future? It is well-publicized that these 'treatments' (they are by definition NOT vaccines) are still in the trials stage. They were only granted licences for emergency use due to intense pressure (plus a lot of lobbying I suspect) on governments to 'do something'. As the trials are still on-going, the results are not in yet. There could very easily be adverse effects weeks, months or even years down the line as this type of therapy has never before been used on humans. Every single person who rolls up their sleeve is unwittingly taking part in a huge experiment.
Had the same time, effort and determination been put into improving people's immune systems the world would be in a far better place right now.
Out of interest Reg, after receiving the jab, how long was it before you were able to drive off?