Bangkok prepares to provide influenza vaccines to primary school children. Along with the HPV vaccine for girls in grades 5-6 according to government policy.
On October 6th at the Chao Phraya Room Bangkok City Hall, Giant Swing, Mr. Chatchart Sitthiphan, Governor of Bangkok (Bangkok), chaired the meeting of the Bangkok Communicable Disease Committee No. 1/2023, with Ms. Tavida Kamonwet, Deputy Governor. Bangkok Mr. Chatri Wattanakejon, Deputy Permanent Secretary of Bangkok, executives of the Medical Bureau, Health Department and committees from related agencies attended the meeting.
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Mr. Chatchat informed the meeting that Since the original committee had expired, a new committee of the Bangkok Communicable Disease Committee was appointed. And today is a meeting to follow up on the current situation, such as influenza. with the outbreak increasing sharply in August. In order to bring information to the committee for information.
Ms. Thawida said that Today’s meeting is to follow up on diseases that have quite a large number of people infected, including COVID-19, smallpox, dengue fever, Aedes arthritis fever, chikungunya, Zika virus, influenza, HPV virus, and rabies. For the COVID-19 situation The number of infected people has decreased. It’s not cause for concern, but we’re still open for service. You can come in and get vaccinated. including the monkeypox situation The number of infected people has decreased from 2 months ago, but caution is still being given to certain at-risk groups. People in high-risk groups are more cautious. At the same time, various places There is better cleaning.
In the field of dengue fever Statistics have seen signs since last month. February, therefore it is possible that there will be an increase in the number of patients during the rainy season. After that, surveillance was done and it was found that the numbers were increasing. and establish proactive measures such as spraying mosquitoes and eliminating Aedes mosquito larvae at breeding grounds. and publicizing the issue of symptom monitoring Now the number of patients is decreasing. But still keeping an eye on the situation as well. Because during this time there is still rain all the time. And there are some districts that still have a lot of outbreaks.
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Ms. Tawida said that for influenza The number of cases increased more than twice the median level compared to a year when face masks were not worn. As for the influenza vaccine, it is produced in batches each year in Bangkok. After receiving the allocation, more than 95% have already been injected.
Specifically, 7 risk groups include pregnant women, 4 months or more of pregnancy, children aged 6 months to 2 years, people with chronic diseases as follows: COPD, asthma, heart disease, stroke, kidney failure, cancer patients undergoing chemotherapy, and diabetes. Persons aged 65 years and over, with thalassemia and those with impaired immune systems. (Including people infected with HIV who have symptoms), obesity, mentally disabled people who are unable to help themselves. But the numbers are still very large.
“Today we are meeting to find guidelines on how to proceed in order to be able to allocate more vaccines. In order to be able to inject more in the following year and from this year’s data, there are more patients among primary school children (Grade 1-3) who do not have severe symptoms but may carry the virus. It will spread to high-risk groups at home, so Bangkok expects that next year there will be more injections in this group,” Ms. Tawida said.
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Ms. Tavida said As for measures to prevent the HPV virus that causes cervical cancer, Bangkok normally offers the HPV vaccine to children in grade 5. Already every year The total number of injections was more than 90%. In addition, according to government policy, we want to increase the target group for vaccination. Therefore, more vaccines will be allocated to cover them. Up to Mathayom 6 (or ages 11-20)
In addition, the meeting also agreed to push for the creation of rabies-free areas. According to the project: Animals are disease-free, people are safe from rabies, according to the wishes of Professor Dr. Her Royal Highness Princess Maha Chakri Sirindhorn. Princess Chulabhorn Walailak Empress Dowager Princess Krom Phra Si Sawangkhavadhana Worakhattiyarajanari
2023-10-07 19:47:22
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