The representatives of the Emergency Clinical Hospital “St. Pantelimon” Bucharest announced on Tuesday the inauguration of the anti-HPV vaccination center.
Emergency Clinical Hospital “St. Pantelimon” opens the anti-HPV vaccination center PHOTO Archive
According to a press release, the center is open daily, from Monday to Sunday, between 10:00 a.m. and 6:00 p.m., inside the hospital, on the ground floor, within the Nosocomial Infections Prevention and Control Department.
People who want to be vaccinated against HPV now benefit from a simplified process, only needing a referral ticket from the family doctor and a single visit to the vaccination center, for specialist consultation, prescription and administration, thus saving time and effort.
“The prevention of cervical cancer, with a still unnaturally high incidence in Romania, can be done by anti-HPV vaccination, the effectiveness being proven. We are happy to be the second state hospital that can offer this alternative to ladies and their partners, thus contributing to global health. Prevention is the much cheaper and, by far, less traumatic option in the fight against this condition“, said Bogdan Socea, manager of the Emergency Clinical Hospital “St. Pantelimon” Bucharest, quoted in the press release.
HPV infection is the most common and widespread sexually transmitted viral infection. Approximately 80% of men and women will become infected with HPV during their lifetime, and rates of persistent infection increase with age in both women and men.
“Romania has the highest rate of premature mortality from cervical cancer in Europe. Cervical cancer is the most common type of gynecological cancer diagnosed in Romania and the third most common type of cancer among women in our country, but the second most common in the 15-44 age group. At the level of the European Union, Romania records the highest incidence and the highest mortality rate. The incidence is 2.5 times higher than the EU average, and the mortality rate more than 4 times higher. Every year, almost 3,400 women in Romania are diagnosed with cervical cancer and 1,805 women lose their lives because of this disease”says the same source.
In Romania, adolescent girls and boys between the ages of 11-18 have free access to the anti-HPV vaccination, and women between the ages of 19 and 45 benefit from the anti-HPV vaccine in a 50% compensated regime.
Anti-HPV vaccination can prevent the appearance of cancers, genital warts and other conditions associated with human papilloma virus (HPV) infections, which affect both women and men.
