Health enables 012 to those over 40 years of age in Gran Canaria and Tenerife without vaccinating

Health enables 012 for those over 40 years of age in Gran Canaria and Tenerife who have not yet been vaccinated
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The Ministry of Health of the Government of the Canary Islands has indicated that since this Thursday the residents in Gran Canaria and Tenerife over 40 years old who have not yet received an appointment for himthe first dose of the covid-19 vaccine You can call to request it through 012 (or 928 301 012 or 922 470 012).

In a statement, the regional department has explained that as of today people of these age groups, born in 1981 or before that date, will also be able to make this request in the miCitaPrevia section of the miSCS website, the digital services portal personalized for users of the Canary Islands Health Service (SCS).

In this way, it can be accessed from the SCS website (www.gobiernodecanarias.org/citasalud) or through the iOS or Android apps.

To process the appointment, you must enter your CIP number and the CSV, code found on the back of your health card, and you will access the service where you can request a prior appointment for vaccination against COVID-19, completing the procedure habitual that the user makes to request other appointments with his health center from this portal.

These citation systems are added to the sending of sms or calls that is made as a usual protocol of notification to the population from the SCS, as well as the possibility of users of these age groups to process their request through their health center .

Rest of the population over 16 years of age

Meanwhile, the rest of the population over 16 years of age and under 40 years of age may continue to process their prior appointment for vaccination through the canariassevacuna.com web form.

In this tool, the user fills in a simple form by filling in the fields of full name, DNI or CIP of the sanitary board, and contact mobile phone.

For its part, the information is compared with the database of health cards and the SCS will contact the user to arrange their appointment for vaccination at any of the points enabled throughout the Canary Islands.

The appointment is scheduled according to the age group of the user, the advance forecasts of the vaccination calendar and the opening of each of the vaccination age groups. In this way, the order of priority by groups established in the vaccination strategy will continue to be maintained.