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Government Council Approves 2024 Vaccination Calendar and Digital Resources Budget

The Minister of Economy and Finance and spokesperson in his appearance yesterday. / R. Valtero

The vaccination calendar for 2024 will allow more than 8 million euros to be mobilized for the purchase of 265,000 vaccines, tools in the field of both individual and collective health, to avoid communicable diseases, generally with a strong incidence among different population groups. .

Yesterday, the Government Council approved the purchase of injectables in accordance with the immunization established in the official vaccination calendar for life. Specifically, it will acquire 50,000 doses of hexavelent vaccine against hepatitis B, diphtheria, tetanus, acellular pertussis, inactivated poliomyelitis and conjugated haemophilus influenzae type b. This vaccine is administered at 2,4 and 11 months. It will also purchase 22,000 doses of vaccine against diphtheria, tetanus, acellular pertussis and inactivated polio, which will be administered at age six, for children born in 2018; and 500 units of the haemophilus influenzae type b conjugate vaccine that will be administered to people with risk conditions.

Added to this consignment are 17,000 doses of vaccine against diphtheria, tetanus, and acellular pertussis with reduced antigenic content for women during the months of pregnancy; 50,000 doses of conjugate vaccine against diphtheria and tetanus with reduced antigenic content that will serve as a booster dose at ages 14 and 65; and 18,000 units of the triple viral vaccine against measles, rubella and mumps, which is administered after the first year and which can also be used to correct patterns in children and in adults susceptible to the disease.

27,500 doses of the chickenpox vaccine will also be purchased to be administered at 15 months and at 12 years, those not previously vaccinated and who have not had the disease will receive two doses; another 19,000 units of the vaccine against measles, rubella, mumps and chickenpox that will be administered to those born in 2021; and 61,000 doses of the conjugate vaccine against meningococcus serogroups A, C, Y and W. This vaccine has a two-dose schedule at 12 months and 12 years. In the vaccination schedule of Castilla y León for the year 2024, it is administered at four months of age to replace the meningitis C vaccine.

Finally, the Ministry of Health will purchase the rotavirus vaccination that was incorporated into the 2023 vaccination schedule for all infants in the first year of life and that is administered to all those born since January 1, 2023 and that, Depending on the type of vaccine, you will have two or three doses.

Digital resources

The Government Council approved an expenditure of 421,668 euros by the Ministry of Culture, Tourism and Sports for the contracting of the service for creating digital resources from funds kept in the libraries of Castilla y León. Included are printed works, handwritten works and photographic backgrounds (postcards, negatives, photographs, slides or flashlight plates, among others).

In addition, the option of applying an optical character recognition process to the documentation, the creation of metadata, the linking of authority records with other related external sources, the semantic enrichment of the selected records and their integration into the management of the Digital Library of Castilla y León (BDCyL).

Óscar Puente’s offense

Yesterday, the Junta de Castilla y León once again demanded that the Government of Spain take measures so that “an offense to Castilla y León and its people will never be repeated again”, following the words of the Minister of Transport and Sustainable Mobility, from Valladolid. Óscar Puente, in relation to the aging situation of the Community’s population, which he considered to be an “open-air geriatric home,” and which led to the sending of a formal complaint this Wednesday.

2024-02-16 05:00:55
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