Lula’s Ministry of Health repeats the failure of Bolsonaro’s management and does not even mention the disabled population in the campaign, despite the fact that the priority of immunization is determined by federal law.
The campaign starts on February 27th.
The priority of the vaccination of people with disabilities in the immunization campaigns against the covid-19 is determined by the law n. 14.124/2021.
“Children and adolescents with permanent disabilities, with comorbidities or deprived of liberty will be included as a priority group in the National Plan for the effectiveness of vaccination against Covid-19, according to the terms of the regulation, depending on whether it is registration or authorization for the emergency use of vaccines in Brazil for persons under the age of 18 (eighteen) years”highlights the article 13 (§ 5°).
Access to vaccination campaigns on equal terms is also guaranteed by the Brazilian Law for the Inclusion of Persons with Disabilities (n. 13.146/2015).
Despite what is established by law, the Ministry of Health announced this Thursday 26 that the vaccination campaign against covid-19 will begin on February 27, with Pfizer’s bivalent vaccine, also against the subvariants of the Ômicron strain, but the disabled population was not not even mentioned in the official announcement.
The work will have four phases. Phase 1 includes people over 70, immunocompromised people, indigenous, riverside and quilombola communities. In the sequence (phase 2), they will be people between 60 and 69 years old. Then (stage 3) pregnant and postpartum women. And in phase 4, healthcare workers.
When asked about the exclusion of people with disabilities from the campaign, the Ministry of Health replied in a note that “in the first moment, the most vulnerable groups were considered, with risks of complications, deaths and greater exposure to the increase in covid cases -19.
Even in the face of the arrival of bivalent vaccines, the folder reiterates that the monovalent vaccines currently available in vaccination rooms throughout the country are effective and protect against severe cases and deaths from covid-19, and will continue to be available for immunization of population.
The comprehensive vaccination schedule, including booster doses, is essential for transmission and vaccination control efforts to continue in 2023,” Ms.
For the lawyer Emerson Damasceno, president of the National Commission for the defense of the autistic person of the Federal Council of the OAB, “the right to priority vaccination for people with disabilities was established in law 14.124/2021, also guaranteeing children and young people with disabilities, as the MS Anti-Covid Vaccination Operational Plan has already guaranteed adults with disabilities since December 2020”.
The expert recalls that “both the United Nations Convention and the Brazilian Law on Inclusion guarantee this priority, and the Convention has the status of constitutional amendment in our legal system. It, in particular in its clauses 11 and 25 which deal with situations of risk and emergency and the right to health,” he says.
“It is worth mentioning that the priority of people with disabilities was not observed by the Bolsonaro government in the first edition of the Plan, in December 2020, but after numerous protests, pressure from the community of people with disabilities through its entities, as well as judicialization, this has been guaranteed. Which makes it even more regrettable, if this omission of the Ministry of Health in relation to Pfizer’s bivalent is confirmed. It must be reiterated that people with disabilities are at a greater risk than covid for several reasons, from the difficulty facing the barriers of the characteristics that various disabilities have, such as immunosuppression, physiological problems and even the difficulty in using masks by autistic people and people with intellectual disabilities, for example “, completes Damascene.
The lack of established and detailed criteria prevents the vaccination of people with disabilities, as was the case at the height of the pandemic.
In the evaluation of the doctor Izabel Maior, former national secretary for the rights of persons with disabilities (2002/2010) and retired professor at the Faculty of Medicine of the Federal University of Rio de Janeiro, the current government cannot be wrong and ignore the risks of people with disabilities is incorrect.
“We have lost people with disabilities and, unfortunately, there is no data. Down syndrome was the most affected group and many died. There is a medical indication to place people with disabilities in phase 1 or phase 2 We cannot fail to immunize people with Down syndrome immediately. it will not affect the vaccination sequence. Rio Grande do Norte has vaccinated and saved the lives of people with trisomy 21,” he stresses.
THE blog Vencer Limits also searched National Secretariat for the Rights of Persons with Disabilities and asked if the institution intends to demonstrate officially or if it will dialogue with the Healthcare portfolio on the problem, but there was no response.
Source: Terra
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