2023-08-05 22:54:23
Pharmacists will be able to administer the flu vaccine this fall, alongside general practitioners, the office of Health Minister Frank Vandenbroucke said Friday morning. The aim will be to increase the vaccination coverage of the population, which is still too low in Belgium, in particular for certain groups at risk.
Pharmacists had already been involved in the vaccination campaign once morest Covid-19 during the winter of 2022. It was then also possible to go to your pharmacist to be vaccinated once morest the flu, without a prescription from a doctor. . For winter 2023, the World Health Organization (WHO) and the European Center for Disease Prevention and Control (ECDC) recommend combining a booster campaign for the Covid-19 vaccine with vaccination once morest flu. The Superior Health Council (CSS) and the Interministerial Public Health Conference (CIM) have followed this recommendation. From October 1 to December 31, anyone who wishes can therefore be vaccinated once morest the flu as well as once morest Covid-19 from pharmacists who are equipped and have undergone training for this purpose.
“In 11 European countries around us, such as France or Germany, vaccination once morest influenza by pharmacists has been authorized for a long time. We find that vaccination coverage is higher in these countries, precisely because pharmacists have many contacts with the population.“, emphasizes Frank Vandenbroucke. The role of pharmacists as primary health care providers had already been strengthened earlier this year, through the support of chronic patients in monitoring their treatment or in the fight once morest consumption. excessive medication such as sleeping pills.
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