The Ministry of Health Santa Fe in Rosario announced this Monday the third phase of vaccination was launched within the framework of the campaign Aim of Dengue. This time, it will reach health workers between 40 and 59 years old. This group had already started to receive the vaccine but between 20 and 39 years of age. At the same time, the officials who broke the news admitted that the vaccine was against him dengue among adolescentswhich was the first group that was chosen, “coming slowly in Rosario.”
Cristian Cunha, Secretary of Cooperation of the provincial government and Andrea Uboldi, Secretary of Health of Santa Fe, indicated that “There are no dengue cases yet” but “the vector is across the province” by which it is intended at any time the first judgment of this season will be presented.
The campaign started in September with teenagers between 15 and 19 years old, free of charge. It continued with public and private health workers, firefighters and police officers between the ages of 20 and 39. “Now we will expand the health workers between 40 and 59 years of age,” they said at a press conference.
Taking into account that the younger people are not coming to Rosario to get vaccinated en masse, said Cunha “We would like to go to the schools for vaccination” and he said that work is being done in that sense with the education department.
Uboldi pointed out: “It is more difficult for young people to get vaccinated, they are the most ignorant population because they are not the ones who regularly go to health clinics,” although, in the case of dengue, “we know that it is a group that is very. contagious.” .
At the same time, they pointed out that the use of the QDenga Takeda vaccine (the only one in the world to prevent the effects of the disease transmitted by the Aedes aegypti mosquito) in Santa Fe “has not registered any adverse effects .”
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They also said that the vaccines purchased by the provincial government “arrived on time and in form and there were no delays.” Uboldi mentioned that “it is not the same format as the private sector” where things are delayed.
The vaccine is given in two doses separated by 90 days. As part of the regional campaign, selected groups are receiving the vaccine for free. In the private sector, where there is a long delay in the arrival of new doses, each application costs 94,500 pesos.
Anmat gave her permission since she was 4 years old. It cannot be applied to immunocompromised, pregnant or lactating people.
2024-10-21 16:17:00
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