/cloudfront-us-east-1.images.arcpublishing.com/eluniverso/JECR5UUP6NGOTECZXBDKJXM3NU.jpg "For seven hours you will be vaccinated against COVID-19 and flu at the Parque Samanes | fair Community | Guayaquil")
From 08:00 to 15:00 this Sunday, December 11, a massive vaccination campaign will take place in Samanes Park, north of Guayaquil.
Health brigades will be urged in the area to vaccinate against COVID-19, influenza and the regular schedule. About 30,000 people are expected to be vaccinated.
The Zonal Coordination 8 of the Ministry of Health has organized this massive vaccination program to contain the large number of infections that have occurred in recent weeks
Free cataract surgery has summoned hundreds of elderly people out of the León Becerra hospital
That’s why the focus of the campaign is ‘this holiday we take care of you and your family’, as it aims to prevent more sick people in the Christmas and New Year mobilization which ramps up from next week.
Hugo Armendáriz, zone director of surveillance of zone 8, commented that the vaccines against COVID-19 will be placed in both the first dose, the second dose and the other reinforcements, from the age of 3.
Similarly, the seasonal influenza vaccine will be applied to children aged 6 to 11 months, 1 year, 2 years, 3 years, 65 years and above, pregnant women, citizens aged 4 to 64 with factors risk groups such as chronic diseases and immunosuppressants, healthcare personnel, people with disabilities, healthcare workers, hospital waste management personnel, among other groups.
And all MSP regular schedule vaccines that prevent meningeal tuberculosis, hepatitis B, rotavirus, pneumococcus, polio, diphtheria, tetanus, whooping cough, haemophilus influenza type B, measles, rubella, mumps, yellow fever, chicken pox, HPV.
Armendáriz indicated that this program is aimed at children under the age of 2, boys as young as 5, girls as young as 9, and adolescent men and women as young as 15. (I)
