Vaccinations
According to the national program, those whose health is seriously threatened by influenza or whose health is significantly benefited from vaccination receive the INFLUENZA VACCINATION free of charge.
- Children (6 months–6 years)
- Pregnant women
- Everyone over the age of 65
- Due to illness or treatment, they belong to a risk group
- Close circle of those particularly susceptible to severe influenza (THL guidelines)
- Men start their conscription service and women start voluntary military service
- Social, healthcare and pharmaceutical personnel
Those who do not belong to the risk group can take the vaccination at their own expense. You can send a request for a prescription for the influenza vaccine to the health center via Omasote (www.omasote.kainuu.fi) or you can request a prescription by calling your own health center. After getting the vaccine from the pharmacy, you can come and vaccinate yourself on the vaccination days mentioned below.
The pneumococcal vaccines included in the national vaccination programme for certain patients. Prevenar13-vaccine is offered free of charge
For
65–84 aged patients with asthma or copd (chronic obstructive pulmonary disease)
under 75 aged patients with severe immune deproivations or severe kidney diseases
- Stem cell transplant recipients
NB! Prevenar13 vaccine is given in one dose only. If you have had it previously, no extra dose is needed. If previously vaccineted with Pneumovax, then Prevenar13 is given.
Pneumococcal vaccinations in the national vaccination programme
The COVID-19 vaccine is offered in Finland to all who are 12 years old and above and want to take the vaccine. Additionally, vaccinations are offered to children under the age of 12 based on individual consideration.
The primary vaccination series for all includes two vaccine doses, except for children aged 6 months to 4 years and persons with severe immunodeficiency, whose vaccine series includes three doses.
Boosters refer to vaccine doses given in addition to the primary vaccine series and previous coronavirus infections, which maintain protection against a serious disease and death.
Vaccine doses offered to different groups
COVID19 -vaccine booster doses
Recommendes for:
all over 65 years of age
Those over 18 years of age belong to the medical risk groups
For persons with a severely weakened immune defence (over 12 years of age)
Vaccines are used to create immunity against infectious diseases.
Many of these diseases have already been eradicated from Finland, and vaccines have also reduced their incidence worldwide.