From today, vaccination against the flu will be carried out in pharmacies without the need to present a medical prescription for some categories of the population.
The flu vaccine is provided free of charge and is reimbursed by EOPYY and other insurance funds.
According to the relevant circular, the measure concerns categories of the adult population, specifically:
- People aged 60 and over and
- Adults who, according to their declaration, meet one or more of the following aggravating factors or chronic diseases:
- Chronic respiratory diseases, such as asthma, chronic obstructive pulmonary disease.
- Chronic heart disease
- Immunosuppression (hereditary or acquired)
- Organ transplantation and bone marrow transplantation
- Sickle cell anemia (and other hemoglobinopathies)
- Diabetes mellitus or other chronic metabolic disease
- Chronic kidney disease
- Chronic liver diseases
- Neurological-neuromuscular diseases
- Down syndrome
- Pregnant women regardless of gestational age, lactating and lactating women.
- People with morbid obesity (Body Mass Index >40Kg/m2)
- People who are in close contact with children younger than 6 months or care for or live with people with an underlying illness, which increases the risk of flu complications.
- Closed populations, such as staff and internal students (of schools, military and police schools, special schools, etc.), new recruits, institutions for the chronically ill and accommodation units for the elderly, detention centers, etc.
- Workers in health service provision areas (medical and nursing staff, other workers, students of health professions in clinical practice) and in refugee-immigrant accommodation centers.
- Homeless.
- Veterinarians, poultry farmers, pig farmers, breeders, butchers and general people who come into systematic contact with birds or pigs, which are groups of increased risk according to no. Prot. D1a/G.P.ok.81839/29-12-2021 circular on the subject of the National Adult Immunization Program” 2022 (ADA:Ψ7ΤΥ465ΤHYO-47Φ), may be vaccinated against influenza by a pharmacist without a medical prescription.
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