(Adnkronos) - "Il Comitato interregionale della prevenzione delle Regioni sta cercando di spingere il ministero della Salute a far introdurre la vaccinazione contro il virus respiratorio sinciziale (Rsv) nel Calendario vaccinale” ha spiegato Michele Conversano, presidente del Comitato tecnico scientifico di HappyAgeing, a margine degli Stati generali dell'invecchiamento attivo, organizzati a Roma da HappyAgeing.
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00:00With the arrival of the cold season, there is an insidious danger for the elderly, the respiratory virus syncytial.
00:10Yes, it is a virus that spreads mainly and hits the newborn and the elderly, the so-called epidemiological curve U.
00:17So as soon as you are born, it is when we become elderly.
00:20It is a very dangerous virus because it gives bronchiolitis and bronchitis,
00:24very important respiratory pathologies that often lead to resuscitation or even many deaths related to this pathology.
00:35It is a virus that we now encounter after COVID.
00:39When there are lung diseases, diagnosis is now done with instruments that are now certainly increased.
00:47We can count how many respiratory diseases there are and we know that we can avoid it with vaccination.
00:55Our National Vaccine Plan provides for an update of the calendar every year.
01:00This year it has not yet been updated, so it is a vaccine that has just arrived.
01:04It is a vaccine that is not yet included in the vaccination calendar, so it is not an essential level of assistance.
01:10So there is the doubt that only the regions that are not in the recovery plan can implement it, with balance sheets,
01:18and not the regions that are in the recovery plan.
01:20This, of course, would cause absolute insecurity in the newborn as well as in the elderly.
01:26And so the regions are working in different ways.
01:31Some regions have introduced the vaccination with regional law.
01:35Someone has made a plan, a plan provided by the EU in case of an emergency.
01:40So it is a very, very delicate situation at the moment, very varied between region to region.
01:45This worries us because the winter season is about to arrive and therefore the virus does not expect regional laws or the implementation of the plan.
01:53We could have the fact that in some regions the elderly could be protected, in some other regions not.
01:59We, who are, however, beyond the modification of the title V of the Constitution,
02:04therefore with many regional systems, would like and want the elderly to be protected from the Alps to the Ampedusa in the same way.
02:13This is why in some way we are pushing so that the Interregional Committee for Prevention of Regions
02:19is trying to push the Ministry to introduce this vaccination in the calendar
02:24in such a way as to be fair to the entire elderly population.