“Vaccination Campaign in Esmeraldas: Protecting Children and Fighting Infectious Diseases”

The vaccination campaign in Esmeraldas is being carried out with
normal, although some parents do not accept vaccinations
reinforcements for your children.

Last Tuesday, May 2, the National Government through the
Ministry of Public Health presented the campaign Ecuador free of
poliomyelitis, measles and rubella 2023, where immunization is sought
about 3.7 million children between 1 and 12 years of age during
10 weeks.

The campaign aims to protect children, achieve immunity,
avoid serious disease and mortality. Also, decrease the
percentage of population not vaccinated and at risk
high or very high for these infectious diseases in 85% of the
cantons of Ecuador, with an investment of around 8.2 million.
Importance of vaccines

Leonor Perlaza prevention and control strategy specialist,
responsible for immunizations, does not indicate that the
placement of the vaccine, because with the placement of these boosters
the eradication of diseases is being fought
polio, measles and rubella.

The same ones that are diseases that if they are not prevented or
protects through vaccination can cause the child to reach
to a hospitalization and in other cases cause the event thereof, for
This is the campaign to prevent, Leonor Perlaza tells us.
To prevent these diseases from reaching children, since in
this age group between 1-12 years is the most
vulnerable to these diseases.

The head of immunization tells us that in several of the
educational centers have been very well received, where it has been
administered the doses to more than 6000 children, in the two days we have
some negative responses

There have been some difficulties in the sense that they are
coming out some erroneous news giving false information about why
vaccination is taking place, “and we understand that each
father of a family, each person has his criteria”.

What we try to make parents and children understand
teachers is that we are protecting the most vulnerable population
of these illnesses that are children, of illnesses that are not
are now in our country but they are in countries close to
us.

What we seek is the consent of the parent, who
understand that we are concerned about protecting our
children of diseases that, although they have not presented in a
massive here in Ecuador can arrive.

If you want the application of the vaccine for your son or daughter
You can go to the health centers closest to your home,
The Ministry of Public Health has 27 operational units 16
units or health centers in the Esmeraldas canton and 11 in the
canton Río Verde that cover the entire locality all the communities
and neighborhoods that belong to the district.

previous campaign
The campaigns are carried out every 4 years, the last campaign that
carried out in the country against poliomyelitis and measles.
was carried out in 2012 and is being carried out in 2023, until the
Currently we currently have no cases of poliomyelitis or
measles in the town. Our goal is to reach 95% of the
assigned population that we have of 76,857 children with different vaccines
the person in charge tells us
.

For those who do not have the vaccines
Those who have not received these vaccines on time and who
need to be placed, in which we place the dose and after 4
weeks, that is, after a month, the parents can approach
your children to continue with your child’s vaccination schedule,
immunization in schools

Work is being done in the institutions to cover the largest amount
of children we invite schools, which have a
programming and according to it we are visiting them, for
now the Sacred Heart educational units have been visited
where there was a very good acceptance by the parents of
families who waited until the vaccine was given to their
children.

In this month of May, work is being done to cover 80% of the
population of children who are in the entities
educational, since it is considered that 20% of the population that does not
is educated according to the data provided by the Miess. (LVS)

PHOTO.
VACCINATION. Since last May 2, a campaign of
vaccination of boys and girls between the ages of 1-12 years,
the same one that ends on July 9.