High temperatures continue to ravage the country at a time of year when the rains used to predominate. For this reason, the Ministry of Health will propose this Thursday to the communities to advance, for the second consecutive year, the activation of the "National Plan for preventive actions on the effects of excessive temperatures on health" to next May 15, 15 days before the usual.
It will do so at the Public Health Commission, which is being held with an agenda that also includes recommendations for the use of nirsevimab, the monoclonal antibody recently endorsed by the European Medicines Agency (EMA) to prevent infection caused by Respiratory Syncytial Virus. in newborns and infants, as well as those of the next flu vaccination campaign.
Regarding the plan against the heat, the Health plan will be made at a time when a good part of the country is experiencing summer temperatures and which have yet to reach their peak on Friday, when values above 32º and even are expected. 40º in Andalusia.
Sources from this department remind Efe that last year the activation of this plan was brought forward to May 19, which since it started in 2004, is normally launched from June 1 to September 15.
For its correct development, the State Meteorological Agency (Aemet) provides daily the maximum and minimum temperatures expected for that day, broken down by provincial capital and isothermal zones, and the predictions for the following five.
Based on the number of days in which the thresholds determined in the plan are exceeded, the risk levels are determined, ranging from "Level 0" to "Level 3".
Apart from the plan against heat, the Public Health Commission plans to inform the Interdepartmental Monitoring Commission for the management and coordination of the activities of the Strategic Health and Environment Plan (Pesma) and the Royal Decree project that modifies the regulations on health requirements for the prevention and control of legionellosis.
Also of the new Royal Decree projects in the framework of the development of the Public Health Surveillance Network and the delay in the execution of the funds transferred to the communities for the development of the information systems.
In addition, they will update the follow-up activities for MPOX and discuss the vector plan.
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