Fernando Barral Zegarra/Bolinfo/Tarija
Source: The newspaper
The priority treatment of covid 19 after the arrival of the first vaccines has made regular vaccination neglected, not only in Tarija, to the point of running the risk of a return of apparently eradicated diseases.
“Yes, I think it is one of the problems we have had, we have neglected the regular PAI (Immunization Support Program) a lot, we have dedicated ourselves more to the covid for the emergency that we have had”, admitted the Director of the PAI, Alicia Alemán dear .
Many parents have not gone for regular PAI vaccines for their children, “yes we have neglected that part, the same population has neglected the protection of their children,” added the health authority.
There is concern, not only in the PAI, because there could be cases of immune-preventable diseases such as measles, polio, whooping cough, which the department of Santa Cruz currently suffers from, he added.
In the capital there have been several cases of whooping cough or whooping cough, “we are very concerned because it can occur in our department if we are not vaccinated, there is also fluid and much more imminent traffic with Santa Cruz”.
There are many exhibitors who come and go, there is concern about the possibility of a resurgence of any of the vaccine-preventable diseases, he insisted, recalling that those who have received the least vaccinations are children between 0 and 5 years old.
In Tarija, the PAI aims to vaccinate 11.78 children in the first, second and third dose, but it has barely reached 7,000, “we are vaccinating very little, we have a low percentage of coverage, with the regular PAI, vaccines that do not I’m covid”.
Regular EPI treats tuberculosis, as soon as the baby is born they have to be vaccinated against this disease, then there is the pentavalent, for five diseases, diphtheria, whooping cough, tetanus, polio and rotavirus, which causes diarrhea, he listed.
Then there are Pneumocosias which are for all pneumonias, then there is SRP Measles, Rubiola and Parosiditis, which are vaccinated when children are one year old, the second dose is given at one and a half years, they too are vaccinated against yellow fever.
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In addition, five doses must be completed in all children from newborn to 5 years old, he reiterated, assuring that as a program they have done the impossible, throughout the ward to vaccinate as many children as possible, but many have not been brought from their parents.
The problem is that everyone has reported it to covid and there are many people who have lost faith in vaccines due to widespread misinformation, “for us it is worrying and beyond the goodwill of the staff who continue to work to immunize”.
