Through COVAX, 262,080 doses of Pfizer BioNTech vaccine arrived in the country this Thursday, June 29, 2023. The Ministry of Health reported that these immunizers will be used for the vaccination of frontline personnel and people with a high degree of vulnerability.
For this shipment, 3.1 million dollars were invested and the priority will be the vaccination of personnel in the areas of management of respiratory diseases, such as pulmonology, ICU and emergency, of the entire national health system. This process will be carried out in the work areas of each of them.
In addition, adults over 65 years of age and patients with serious conditions and prioritized diseases will be immunized. However, the doses will only be applied if the person complied with the complete primary vaccination schedule and its two boosters, and if there is a lapse of six months with the last application.
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Serious conditions and prioritized illnesses
Obesity: Body mass index (BMI) greater than or equal to 30 km/m2
Chronic cardiovascular disease: heart failure, coronary artery disease, valvulopathies, arrhythmias, cardiomyopathies, pulmonary hypertension, arterial hypertension.
Moderate or severe chronic respiratory disease: chronic obstructive pulmonary disease (COPD), cystic fibrosis, interstitial lung disease, moderate to severe asthma, pulmonary hypertension.
Diabetes Mellitus type 1 and 2.
Chronic Kidney Disease: including people on dialysis
Chronic liver disease: related to alcohol consumption, non-alcoholic fatty liver, liver cirrhosis.
HIV
Immunocompromised people: weakened immune system
Solid organ or blood stem cell transplantincludes people on the waiting list
Oncology and oncohematology patients: with recently diagnosed or active disease (less than 1 year from diagnosis, current treatment or having received immunosuppressive treatment in the last 12 months, relapsed or uncontrolled disease).
Tuberculosis activa: new cases or relapse, diagnosed in the last 12 months.
Vaccination of this group will begin on July 19, 2023 in the health centers defined by the Ministry of Health in the 24 provinces of the country. And a new shipment of vaccines is expected to arrive in November of this year.
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