Vaccination against Covid-19 will be ensured primarily by about 40 nurses from the National Health Service (NHS), said today, December 4, the Deputy Secretary of State and Health, adding that if necessary, these will be reinforced. resources.
“We have about 40 nurses in the NHS and they are the ones who are primarily going to vaccinate. Obviously, if reinforcement is needed, these means will be strengthened”, António Lacerda Sales told journalists, at the end of two visits to two health units, in Matosinhos, Porto.
On whether the health centers may have to extend the opening hours, the government official said that "it is possible", but noted that this is within the functional scope of local health units and executive directors of groups of health centers.
“[This possibility] is the suitability that the plan has to have according to the needs and the answer is according to the needs”, stressed António Lacerda Sales.
Asked whether the State will ensure alone the vaccination plan, the government official explained that the Government understood that as "a matter of coordination, articulation and monitoring, the National Health Service will ensure, in a first phase, vaccination against Covid-19 ».
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