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The

doctors and nurses retired

from the Community of Madrid will join teams vaccination against the Covid-19.

The Ministry of Health is going to authorize their voluntary recruitment in the face of "requests from professionals who want to actively join to help stop the pandemic generated by the coronavirus," according to a spokesman.

In the order that regulates the process - to which EL MUNDO has had access - the only requirement is that the retired toilets

have not yet reached 70 years of age

.

The work will be remunerated, compatible with the collection of the pension and with a duration of one month extendable for periods of equal or less until the end of the state of alarm.

The management of hospitals, Primary Care and Summa 112 will now have to contact their retired doctors and nurses to inform them about the possibility of reinstatement.

The personal data of those who show interest will

become part of a pool of professionals

that can be used to "carry out a massive vaccination as long as the doses committed by the Ministry of Health arrive."

In addition, the Government of Isabel Díaz Ayuso has modified the regulations to allow public and private facilities and premises to be used as precincts for the administration of roads.

This is

the case of the Metropolitan Wanda

, where as of this Thursday municipal police officers, firefighters, Civil Protection officers and forestry agents up to 55 years of age will begin to be vaccinated, since the product patented by AstraZeneca will be used.

When the immunization process is extended to the general population applying the criteria of age ranges, sports centers and other similar venues will be set up in several municipalities in the region that have already contacted the Ministry of Health to make them available to them.

"The idea is to try to facilitate the process as much as possible when that phase arrives, which I hope will arrive as soon as possible, so that it is

as comfortable and bearable as possible

depending on the place of residence", says the Deputy Minister of Public Health and Covid-19 Plan, Antonio Zapatero.

More than 378,000 doses administered

On Friday, more than 378,000 doses of the 484,095 received until that day had been administered in Madrid,

398,895 from Pfizer, 59,800 from AstraZeneca and 25,400 from Moderna

.

95% of the elderly living in nursing homes and their workers, as well as 82% of health workers, have already received the two punctures necessary for immunity.

“As the stages advance in the vaccination process,

the target population groups will expand

and it is foreseeable that the approval of new vaccines, together with the improvement of the supply channels of the current ones, will imply a greater availability of vaccines that may require the need to enable and have spaces of adequate dimensions, as well as professionals, who make it possible to increase the rate of vaccination and reach the largest number of the population in the shortest possible time if necessary, ”they emphasize in the Ministry of Health.

To date, there are

2,556 professionals qualified to carry out this task,

to which there will be another 2,000 who are being trained these days.

They belong to the bodies of the Madrid Health Service, the Red Cross, residences, private hospitals, Madrid City Council, Samur, professional health associations and occupational risk prevention services of security and emergency bodies.

Effects of immunization

At the end of January, when 28 days had elapsed since the beginning of the process in the nursing homes and the two doses had been administered, the cases of coronavirus began to be reduced significantly in these centers, according to the head of the Covid-19 Plan. in the region: in the last three weeks and despite the scourge of the third wave of the pandemic,

the number of infected elderly people has gone from 212 to 20

, 86% less, and hospital admissions have also fallen, from 41 to five .

Along with the security and emergency personnel who will be summoned by SMS to go to Wanda, this week the immunization of the

more than 30,000 large

non-institutionalized

dependents

of the region and their caregivers

will also begin

.

This sector of the population is mainly found at home and, therefore, it will be the nurses from the health centers who come to the homes to inject the contents of the vials.

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