37% of Hyvinkää’s third vaccinations have been given to non-residents.
Different Observations have been made in Finland about domestic vaccine tourism. Out-of-town residents have applied for third-party vaccinations at vaccination points in other municipalities that do not need to set aside time.
For example, vaccination points in Hyvinkää have proven to be particularly popular. Those from elsewhere have been seen especially at the drive-in point and the mall in Willa.
“In Hyvinkää, the share of out-of-town residents in third vaccinations is 37 per cent, while in other vaccination points it is in the order of one per cent,” says the coordinating nursing supervisor. Miia Seistilä-Kyle From the Central Uusimaa Sote Consortium by e-mail.
Vaccination may be obtained more quickly from a point in another locality without an appointment if the vaccination period in your own municipality is extended.
Seistilä-Kylen According to Hyvinkää, vaccination has come from municipalities all over Finland, but especially from the Kanta-Häme region. For this reason, vaccination assistance has been received from the Riihimäki Regional Health Center Association.
Also In Päijät-Häme, ie in the Lahti region, the phenomenon is somewhat visible, says the chief physician Tuomo Nieminen Päijät-Häme Welfare Association.
“Yes, it would seem that we are giving a few percent more vaccines than our residents have received,” he says.
According to Nieminen, the third round of vaccination has progressed well in Päijät-Häme. Vaccinations have been given in the area on a weekly basis more than ever before.
Previously It has been emphasized to Finns that coronavirus vaccination can only be obtained from their own municipality. However, it is technically possible to administer the vaccine elsewhere.
“It slows down vaccination, as a new patient has to be set up in the patient information system,” says Nieminen.
According to Nieminen, the area is primarily intended to vaccinate its own people. However, it is reasonable for him to take the vaccine as an expatriate if he or she lives permanently in Päijät-Häme.
“But if it’s vaccination tourism, we won’t encourage it.”
Seistilä-Kylen According to him, residents of other municipalities can also be vaccinated in the Keusote area, mainly from the Helsinki and Uusimaa hospital districts.
“But if the vaccination points start to get badly congested, we’ll have to turn out the outsiders.”
There are “mass vaccination weeks” in Keusote, during which the goal is to vaccinate the residents of the area as much as possible.
Vaccinations are also given in Ylä-Savo, for example, regardless of the hometown, says the director of health Eija Jestola Ylä-Savo Sote Consortium.
“All four vaccination points of the health center of our association of municipalities have been visited by locals, Iisalmi has had the most visitors,” Jestola says in an e-mail.
According to him, visitors have come from Kuopio and the Gulf of Lapland, for example.
On the other hand vaccine tourism is not quite everywhere. It is said of Soster, a consortium of municipalities in the Itä-Savo hospital district, that “there has been no major rush”.
In Itä-Savo, ie in the Savonlinna region, non-residents have been mainly individual students or those who have been in the area for longer.
However, the people of East Savonia themselves have eagerly applied for their third doses. Soster is said to have received about a third vaccine in the region, with about 42 percent over the age of 12.
According to Friday’s data, a total of 36.2 per cent of Finns over the age of 12 had received three doses of the vaccine.
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