The clinic offers free vaccination against pneumococcus (a group of bacteria that can cause serious illness) to protect particularly vulnerable citizens. Read about the target groups on this page.

Target groups

The following citizens are covered by the offer of free vaccination:

• All persons over 65 years of age.

• Residents in nursing homes, tenants in nursing homes that are covered by the Act on public housing, etc. or the Housing for the Elderly and Persons with Disabilities Act, tenants and residents in care homes covered by the Care Homes Act, and tenants in similar housing units.

• Persons over 2 years of age, with:

  • lack or dysfunction of the spleen

  • affected respiration due to decreased muscle strength

  • congenital or acquired immune deficiency

  • liquor leakage

  • previously invasive pneumococcal disease

  • Cochlear implantation

  • performed stem cell transplantation

  • performed organ transplant

• Persons under 18 years of age with:

  • cyanotic heart disease

  • heart failure

  • palliative surgery for heart disease

  • hemodynamically significant residues after heart surgery

  • chronic lung disease (eg cystic fibrosis)

  • hypodynamic respiratory failure

  • unpretentious syndrome

  • immune deficiencies, excluding agammaglobulinemia and SCID

• People with other serious diseases where, according to the doctor's assessment, they are at a particularly high risk of invasive pneumococcal disease

Appointments

Appointments for vaccination must be made by telephone.