The clarifications from the Minister of Health Adonis Georgiadis
Measures against the rapid increase of cases of coronavirus and with the aim of protecting the citizens the government receives. As the relevant minister pointed out at the press conference at the Ministry of Health on the course of covid Adonis Georgiadeson Wednesday (10/1), it is being considered whether it can be granted coronavirus vaccine and in pharmacies.
“Covid is here to stay. In the immediate foreseeable future we are not expected to live without the existence of this virus. We have to learn to live with this virus and the annual vaccination especially of the vulnerable, as we do with the flu, should become a routine.
In the context of this normalization, our political will is to find a way to use all vaccination channels, as with the flu vaccine, doctors obviously, health centers but if possible also pharmacies» pointed out Adonis Georgiadis.
“We would like the Covid vaccine to be treated like a normal vaccine that is mass-administered to the population”
The Minister of Health clarified that he cannot officially announce that the vaccines against him coronavirus it will also be in pharmacies, because this requires a discussion in terms of its technical details. “I can tell you that our political will would be that if this could be ensured it would be done in a proper way. We will need the help of doctors on this to be honest, how this can be done. We would like it to enter the pharmacies as well, not only the pharmacies, obviously also the health centers and the doctors and everywhere. As with vaccines. But we would also like the Covid vaccine to be treated like a normal vaccine that is mass-administered to the population.”
“If possible, we want to do it there too (in pharmacies). They (pharmacists) want it. We want it too. If the doctors tell us that it can be done in a way that will also cover some special cases, then yes we will do it” he added.
