· In 2023, 109 thousand Triple Viral doses were applied to protect the child population from this disease.
Guanajuato. Guanajuato. February 15, 2024- The Guanajuato Health Secretariat remains without documented cases of measles.
Derived from a national epidemiological warning and an increase in cases reported in countries in the Americas, Guanajuato does not present cases.
Pablo Sánchez Gastelum General Director of Prevention and Health Promotion reported that the last measles outbreak was in 2020 in Mexico, and Guanajuato has had no cases since 1995.
The entity has a vaccination coverage of more than 95%, that is, there is constant immunization for the population.
The Tripe Viral vaccine that protects against measles, rubella and mumps is applied to children under one year, 18 months and six years of age.
In 2023, 109 thousand doses were applied of the little more than 335 thousand that were expected to arrive in Guanajuato by the Federation. The last reception that Guanajuato had was in November of last year.
“We have a federal request to finish sending the pending doses to the state of Guanajuato, we do not have tentative dates, we have sent a couple of offices, they still have not confirmed arrival dates for the vaccine.”
He recognized that in Guanajuato the population is sensitive and demands their vaccines, even of other types.
Another of its strengths is that the Health System has a large infrastructure to respond to vaccination in the 46 municipalities as soon as the biological vaccine arrives.
“We have to focus on the vaccination strategy, which is short at the moment, we have constant epidemiological surveillance of the febrile exanthematous disease, 500 samples have been issued to monitor that measles is not circulating, all tests have been discarded”
Other strengths that Guanajuato has is the response capacity to respond to measles and rubella outbreaks, especially that there are no imported cases from other countries.
It culminated in ensuring that Guanajuato is distinguished by having the most extensive epidemiological surveillance network in the country, in addition to tripling the study rate of fever and rash cases required by the federation, which can guarantee that the entity is prepared to identify in a timely manner the re-introduction of this disease by carrying out all containment actions to avoid secondary cases or outbreaks due to this cause
Sánchez Gastelum invites the population to heed the recommendations of the Secretary of Health not to self-medicate, to seek timely medical attention in case of any sign or symptom of illness, to inform health personnel if the fever and rash started three weeks before.
Take into account whether you traveled to areas with measles outbreaks or received visits from people coming from those areas, as well as report if you had contact with people with similar manifestations.
2024-02-15 21:06:30
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