Covid booster jab

Biff wrote on Wed Oct 27, 2021 11:31am:

I have just took my friend to Albetera health center to arrange his booster jab and flu jab, he is 73.... He holds an Irish passport so doesn't have residency, he has had his 2 covid jabs here and has lived here for 17 years. He has a European health card that is out of date but has waited some t...

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...ime to receive his new one. They say they can't arrange his booster jab without this card! Can anyone help here, I would have thought giving him his jab was a priority, he took his Irish passport with him. Does anyone know what else he can do if anything? 

ironwheels54 wrote on Sun Nov 7, 2021 9:40am:

Why on earth is he not a resident,being here 17 years he should be . He would then be able to get a SIP card and have gone to his local health centre and received the Covid jabs ,and the flu by the way with no problems whatsoever. It also allows the local government to claim money for him. This i...

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...s a big problem over here of people flying under the radar and then complaining when they are having difficulties getting anything and this applies to everything including rubbish disposal ( if the authorities think there are only a certain amount of people in an area then what they claim from central government can only go around so far.

jamijules wrote on Sun Nov 7, 2021 5:31pm:

It is all still a bit confusing though. Me and my wife are residents. We are not eligible for state pension yet. So we pay for private health; as it is cheaper for us than paying into the Spanish health system. This is all perfectly legal. However we can’t get covid jabs through private health....

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... We need temporary SIP cards. In order to obtain a temporary SIP cards you have to provide the the local health centre with an EHIC card. However one of the above posts is saying that if you are a resident. You shouldn’t be using a EHIC card. 

Davee57 wrote on Mon Nov 8, 2021 12:08am:

I now have the UK G HIC card - it says global . So if this is less useful than an EHIC card - why issue it? I suppose it’s ok for that weekend break to the Falklands eh? 

ironwheels54 wrote on Sun Nov 7, 2021 9:40am:

Why on earth is he not a resident,being here 17 years he should be . He would then be able to get a SIP card and have gone to his local health centre and received the Covid jabs ,and the flu by the way with no problems whatsoever. It also allows the local government to claim money for him. This i...

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...s a big problem over here of people flying under the radar and then complaining when they are having difficulties getting anything and this applies to everything including rubbish disposal ( if the authorities think there are only a certain amount of people in an area then what they claim from central government can only go around so far.

jamijules wrote on Sun Nov 7, 2021 5:31pm:

It is all still a bit confusing though. Me and my wife are residents. We are not eligible for state pension yet. So we pay for private health; as it is cheaper for us than paying into the Spanish health system. This is all perfectly legal. However we can’t get covid jabs through private health....

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... We need temporary SIP cards. In order to obtain a temporary SIP cards you have to provide the the local health centre with an EHIC card. However one of the above posts is saying that if you are a resident. You shouldn’t be using a EHIC card.