Seven centres have been set up in Mallorca, two in Menorca, seven in Ibiza and one in Formentera.
Tomorrow the flu and COVID-19 vaccination campaign for the 2024-2025 season opens without an appointment at the authorised health centres on the four islands. The main objective of this campaign is to improve coverage levels in all groups at risk that were recorded in previous campaigns.
People who want to be immunised against the seasonal virus can go from today without an appointment to the following centres:
In Mallorca: CS Escuela Graduada (Palma), CS S’Escorxador (Palma), CS Son Pisà (Palma), CS Es Blanquer (Inca), CS Manacor, CS Santa Ponça and CS Trencadors (S’Arenal de Llucmajor) from Monday to Friday from 2 pm to 7.30 pm and on Saturdays from 9.30 am to 6.30 pm.
In Menorca: Hospital General Mateu Orfila (on Tuesdays and Thursdays from 3:30 pm to 8:00 pm and on Mondays, Wednesdays, Fridays and Saturdays from 8:30 am to 2:30 pm) and CS Canal Salat (Ciutadella) from Monday to Friday from 3:30 pm to 8:00 pm and on Saturdays from 8:30 am to 2:30 pm.
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In Ibiza: Hospital Can Misses (Saturdays from 9 a.m. to 7 p.m.), CS Can Misses, CS San Josep de sa Talaia and CS Sant Joan de Labritja (Monday to Friday from 1 p.m. to 2 p.m.) and CS Es Viver, CS Vila and CS Santa Eulària des Riu (Monday to Friday from 2 p.m. to 7.30 p.m.).
In Formentera: CS Formentera (Monday to Thursday from 14.00 to 19.30 h and Fridays from 9.00 to 14.00 h.).
You can also make an appointment through the InfoSalut Connecta telephone number
(971 22 00 00) or at grip.caib.es.
Target population
The vaccination campaign is aimed at all people over 60 years of age and those under that age who have any of the established risk conditions. In total, the target population in the Balearic Islands is made up of some 606,685 people in the case of influenza (486,040 in Mallorca, 47,434 in Menorca and 77,204 in Ibiza and Formentera) and 458,323 people in the case of COVID-19 (366,549 in Mallorca, 36,877 in Menorca and 54,897 in Ibiza and Formentera).
Vaccination is recommended for the following population groups:
People aged 60 and over.
People over 65 years of age in nursing homes, centres for the disabled or closed institutions.
Persons aged 12 years and older with risk conditions such as diabetes, morbid obesity, chronic cardiovascular, neurological or respiratory diseases, renal or hepatic diseases, including alcoholism, severe neuromuscular diseases, immunocompromised persons, including those whose immune system has been compromised by the AIDS virus (HIV) or drugs, as well as transplant recipients, coeliacs, people diagnosed with cancer, people with chronic inflammatory diseases, and those suffering from disorders or diseases involving cognitive dysfunction, such as Down’s syndrome or dementia.
Pregnant women at any time during pregnancy and up to six months after delivery.
People who live with others who have a high degree of immunosuppression (transplant recipients, people with chronic renal insufficiency or infected with HIV).
Smokers.
Staff in public and private health and social health care centres, as well as students on work experience placements.
Workers in essential public services, such as national and local law enforcement agencies, fire brigades and civil protection services.
Professionals working in nurseries and childcare centres.
People working in poultry, pig, mink or wildlife farms or farms, to avoid cross-contamination of human and animal viruses.
New this year is the launch of the pilot scheme in schools, as well as the universal vaccination of children between 6 and 59 months of age (4 years and 11 months).
The reason for the universal immunisation of this age group, which was already implemented during the last flu campaign, is that children of this age group frequently suffer from influenza, often in a very severe form. Moreover, they are often the main transmitters of the flu virus to other target groups. This not only provides the child with individual protection but also protects vulnerable people in their environment from infection.
The vaccination schedule for these healthy children is a single dose. The youngest children, from six months to two years of age, will be administered an inactivated injectable vaccine. The rest of the children in the age group from 2 years to 4 years and 11 months will be inoculated with an intranasal flu vaccine.
Vaccination against COVID-19
As in previous flu campaigns, since the introduction of COVID-19, Health Service centres will offer the possibility of administering both flu and COVID-19 vaccines to those people for whom it is indicated.
The double vaccination is also offered to the entire population with risk conditions from the age of 12, pregnant women, people living with people with a high degree of immunosuppression or elderly people with higher risk diseases, essential service personnel and workers in health or social and health care centres, with the sole exception of students in training, who are only recommended to be vaccinated against influenza.
Finally, children aged between 6 months and 12 years who have any of the following conditions (as well as those with whom they live) are also urged to be vaccinated against COVID-19: haematopoietic stem cell transplant recipients; primary and acquired immunodeficiencies or those on immunosuppressive therapy; and those with severe chronic cardiovascular, respiratory, neurological or neuromuscular diseases.