30.JUN.2024 SEDESA Vaccination in opposition to measles and rubella to individuals disadvantaged of liberty – Ministry of Well being in Mexico Metropolis

• One thousand 81 vaccinations have been administered to individuals disadvantaged of liberty and 155 to staff in Penitentiary Facilities
• In these facilities, well being days are held to supply free medical and dental care.

With the purpose of guaranteeing the rights of the individuals, the Ministry of Well being of Mexico Metropolis (SEDESA) supplied 1,236 vaccines in opposition to measles and rubella to Individuals Below Lack of Liberty in six detention facilities within the capital metropolis , in addition to the employees of those instances.

In coordination with the Directorate of Authorized Medical Companies and Public Well being Companies of Mexico Metropolis, SEDESA administered 1,081 vaccinations to individuals who have been at liberty: 525 doses within the North Males’s Penitentiary; 292 within the Males’s Safety Heart I; 214 within the Penitentiary II Safety Heart; 10 within the Particular Heart for Younger Ladies; 30 on the Inter-American Prevention Heart for adolescents; and 10 within the “San Fernando” Particular Heart for Youth. As well as, 155 staff from the aforementioned penal establishments have been vaccinated.

It must be famous that the Double Viral vaccine, which protects in opposition to measles and rubella, is utilized to individuals between 10 and 39 years outdated within the Metropolis Mexican. Whereas the Triple Viral vaccine – in opposition to measles, rubella and mumps – is utilized to youngsters between one and 9 years of age.

However, medical and dental companies are repeatedly supplied in Penitentiary Facilities in Mexico Metropolis. Between April and Could this yr, a well being day was held at Oriente Males’s Jail, the place medical and dental care was supplied and exams for HIV, syphilis, diabetes, hypertension and infections parasitic

On the Oriente Males’s Prison Sanctions Enforcement Heart, the “Santa Martha Acatitla” Males’s Social Reintegration Heart and on the Males’s Psychosocial Rehabilitation Heart, well being days in opposition to HIV, syphilis and parasitosis have been held. Within the Fir I Penitentiary Safety Heart, individuals over 60 years of age got anti-pneumococcus vaccines; and in North Males’s Preventive Jail a psychological well being day was held, the place psychological care was given to 86 individuals.

On the identical time, in the identical interval, on the “Santa Martha Acatitla” Ladies’s Social Reintegration Heart, a prevention marketing campaign in opposition to breast most cancers was carried out, with 323 colpocopies carried out; As well as, within the Particular Heart for Adolescent Ladies and within the Particular Heart for Preventive Tendencies for adolescents, vaccines in opposition to Covid-19, Human Papillomavirus (HPV), Hepatitis B and Tetanus have been utilized.

With these actions, SEDESA reiterates its dedication to offering free high quality medical care to the whole inhabitants.

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