The BCG vaccine against tuberculosis has arrived. The public health sector has already distributed 4.5 million doses.
“The goal of vaccination is to cover the babies within 30 days of birth, which is the ideal stage in which they should be vaccinated.”
Samantha Gaertner-Barnard | Technical Manager for Universal Vaccination, Ministry of Health
You’re on TV confirmed the supply, it is already there tuberculosis vaccine in the General Hospitals of Mexico and Infancy, in the office of the mayor of Cuauhtémoc in the capital of the country.
“What our nurses and vaccinating nurses do is gather 10 babies to give them the vaccine.”
Samantha Gaertner-Barnard | Technical Manager for Universal Vaccination, Ministry of Health
It also reached units 9 and 17 of the IMSS, respectively in the mayors of Benito Juárez and Miguel Hidalgo. There they apply Wednesday and Friday from 10 in the morning.
In the ISSSTE clinics on Avenida Revolución and Calzada Legaria, it is applied from Monday to Friday from 20:00 to 13:00.
It’s just a counter dose tuberculosis, Bacterial disease that mainly attacks the lungs.
It is ideal that it is applied to infants in their first 30 days. Although minors who are left behind should be vaccinated.
“We can apply it to children under the age of 5 and up to 14, we would consider these last two populations as lagging populations.”
Samantha Gaertner-Barnard | Technical Manager for Universal Vaccination, Ministry of Health
Symptoms after vaccination are mild.
“It can cause discomfort to the child, a little redness, then this gallbladder becomes inflamed and there will come a point where it bursts and generates that scar that as good Mexicans we have.”
Michelle Herrera | Subdir. Health prevention, ISSSTE
Parents will be able to vaccinate their children free of charge at the Social Security, ISSSTE, SEDENA, MARINA, PEMEX hospitals or the Federal Ministry of Health.
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