The International Vaccination Centers of the Delegation of the Government in the Canary Islands, located in Santa Cruz de Tenerife and Las Palmas de Gran Canaria, recover the figures of attention to travelers that registered before the international health emergency due to the Covid-19 pandemic was declared.
In the first five months of 2023, the period prior to the start of the summer holiday season in Spain, the International Vaccination Centers, integrated in the Government Delegation through its Functional Area of Health and Social Policy, registered a total of 4,640 travelers served, a figure that is more than double the total of those served in the entire year 2021, which was 2,265.
In 2022, these centers, in charge of advice and supply of vaccines for trips abroad, recorded 8,271 travelers attended, which was already an increase of 265% compared to the figure of the immediately previous year, which was 2,265, a period in which some restrictions on the transit of international travelers were still in force.
In 2019, the year before the start of the Covid-19 pandemic, a total of 11,195 travelers were registered in the International Vaccination Centers of the Canary Islands, but in the following year the levels of travelers served decreased to a total of 2,672, which meant a drop of 76.13%.
The forecast is that, with the volume of travelers served only in the first five months of the year in the International Vaccination Centers (functionally dependent of the Ministry of Health), the level that was registered in 2019 can be recovered by the end of 2023.
To guarantee care during the months of July, August and September, particularly in the non-capital islands, the Government Delegation in the Canary Islands has reinforced the staff of doctors and nurses who will promptly travel outside Gran Canaria and Tenerife to carry out this international vaccination service.
The International Vaccination Centers offer individualized care to travelers who request it, advising them on the health prevention measures they must adopt depending on the destination to which they are going to travel, administering, where appropriate, the necessary and recommended vaccines, in addition to prescribing pharmacological chemoprophylaxis (drugs at preventive doses) advising on mechanisms of action, drug contraindications, side effects, drug interactions and dosage, and reporting on health risks inherent to international travel.
To access this service it is necessary to request an appointment in advance so that the vaccines administered and prescribed can have effects, there being no delay in the granting of the appointment at the International Vaccination Centers of the Government Delegation in the Canary Islands.
The prior appointment can be requested through the following link:
https://sisaex-vac-cita.mscbs.gob.es/sanitarios/consejos/inicioAction.do
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