In memory of Dr. Jesus Kumate Rodriguez.
Alejandro Moreno*
In Mexico we suffer from a vicious circle that revolves around poverty, which, despite government statements, does not decrease, but rather increases at an accelerated pace.
In addition to the educational, food, safety and health deficiencies, today we suffer from a national reality that indicates that the greater the poverty, the less vaccine coverage, leaving millions of children, adolescents and adults completely unprotected against diseases that can not only involve expenses that take away their little patrimony, but life itself.
Through vaccines, the immune defenses are stimulated to generate antibodies and with this, provide the body with the cellular response that protects it against a serious disease.
However, in Mexico people who do not have access to vaccines in the Public Sector accumulate, causing setbacks in the advances that for decades, thanks to the work of women and men committed to health, had been achieved to prevent diseases that can decimate the quality of life of the population.
Today, more than half of children under one year of age have not received the basic vaccination scheme, made up of the triple viral vaccine, which provides antibodies against measles, rubella and mumps; hexavalent, against diphtheria, tetanus, pneumonia, meningitis and hepatitis B; and the tuberculosis vaccine, which is the deadliest disease humanity has ever known and which only last year, due to lack of vaccination, caused the infection of 28,000 people in Mexico.
It is an alarming issue that does not know about ideology or political interests, but does know about investment and effective public policies for its attention.
Vaccines do not only involve a prick, since many of them require a booster and in this sense, 73% of children do not have the second required dose.
This places us in an extremely serious situation in the face of a government that is not investing in the health or disease prevention of its population.
Despite receiving in 2018 a country with a professional team that implemented extensive vaccination campaigns and medical coverage, today the situation is different, one of great danger, negligence, and criminality.
The Mexico of the year 2023 is characterized by disease, poverty and insecurity, faced with a government that has no answers to any of these problems.
It is urgent that medical equipment be hired, the vaccines that the people need are acquired, and the distribution network be restored, in order to solve this serious threat to public health.
This is not a game and it cannot wait until 2024. The PRI demands that the health of Mexicans not be risked and that childhood, adolescence and adulthood be immediately provided with the vaccines they require to maintain their health.
PRI National President
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2023-07-29 09:49:51
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