‘Never contacted by the regions after the signing of the protocol’

Rome, May 20 (beraking latest news Salute) – “I say to General Figliuolo, to whom I am about to write a letter that I will also send a copy to the Minister of Health: ‘we have the availability, the experience, a trust relationship, an equipped study, send us the vaccines and we do them ‘”. So to beraking latest news Salute Paolo Biasci, president of the Federation of pediatricians (Fimp), on the anti-Covid vaccination for the age group 12-15 years, which should be authorized by the European Medicines Agency (Ema) on May 28th.

According to Biasci, family pediatricians’ clinics are the natural place to administer vaccines to teenagers. “We are a point of reference for families, if there is any doubt the last word is that of the pediatrician”. And by appointing pediatricians, immunization could also be done in a very tight time frame. “If I have to vaccinate my patients between 12 and 15 years – underlines the president Fimp – I am talking on average of 150 adolescents for each pediatrician. With 10 appointments a day in 5 days I have vaccinated 50, which means that in less than a month I vaccinated them all. In order not to proceed in this way, someone has to explain to me why “.

But there’s a problem. “Two months ago, about mid-March – recalls Biasci – we signed a memorandum of understanding with the Minister of Health and with the Conference of Regions for vaccination support that, especially in the time of Covid, free choice pediatrics could give to the National Health Service. The signed protocol then passed to the Regions, who had to apply it according to local agreements as it happened for general practitioners. But in fact this has never happened – underlines the president of pediatricians – and therefore we are really in these hours to propose again because we have not been contacted “.

Meanwhile, pending the green light of the EMA, the hypotheses in the field are different. “I hear ‘we will go to schools’ but – says Biasci – it is nonsense. Meanwhile the pediatricians’ surgeries are open in the summer and the school is not, so if you have to vaccinate between July and August there is not much to say. then which parent would be satisfied with just signing an authorization sheet without being present at the child’s vaccination, perhaps to ask questions? It would happen that we would all find ourselves in line at school with their child, still losing a day’s work. – he concludes – I say: isn’t the study of your family pediatrician simpler and more accessible? ”