The Government Council of Castilla-La Mancha has authorized this week the contracting of the supply of vaccines for the 2024 vaccination calendar for a budget close to 10 million euros.
At a press conference to report on the agreements adopted by the Executive this week, the spokesperson advisor, Esther Padilla, recalled that vaccines are “a fundamental tool for the prevention of infectious diseases”, contributing with vaccination to their control. among the population.
The vaccination schedule, Padilla detailed, is aimed especially at the child population and people with some type of risk.
A total of 321,250 vaccines divided into 16 lots have been purchased. The first, with 45,000 doses, includes the hexavalent vaccine against hepatitis B, diphtheria, tetanus, acellular pertussis, inactivated poliomyelitis and Haemophilus influenzae type b conjugate.
The second, made up of 24,000 doses, includes the vaccine against diphtheria, tetanus, acellular pertussis and inactivated poliomyelitis. Lot 3, with 250 doses, includes the Haemophilus influenzae type b conjugate vaccine. The fourth has 12,000 doses and refers to the vaccine against diphtheria, tetanus, and acellular tispherin with reduced antigenic content.
Lot 5 has 26,000 doses and will prevent contracting diphtheria and tetanus with reduced antigenic content.
The sixth, with 19,000 doses, contains the hepatitis B vaccine for pediatric age; Lot 7, with 2,000 doses, the hepatitis B vaccine for adults. Lots 7 and 8, with 11,000 and 3,500 doses, respectively, include hepatitis A vaccines for children and adults.
Already the tenth, with 6,000 vaccines, is to counteract measles, rubella and mumps; and lot 11, with 20,000 doses, for chickenpox.
The twelfth contains vaccines against measles, rubella, mumps and chickenpox, with 28,000 doses; Lot 13 is the conjugate vaccine against meningococcus C, with 18,000 doses; and on the 14th, with 26,500 vaccines, it deals with serogroup B menigococcus.
Finally, lot 15 contains the nonavalent HPV vaccine, with 45,000 doses; and the 16th, with 35,000 doses, contains the 23-valent polysaccharide vaccine against pneumococcus.
Padilla reported that the regional government has advanced the purchase of all these vaccines so that on January 1 they will be available to be supplied to patients who need them. “We take vaccination very seriously” and good proof of this, he said, is that “we have increased the budget for it by more than 700% since García-Page has headed the Government of Castilla-La Mancha.” He explained that in 2015 five million euros were budgeted for this purpose; while in 2023 it was 30 million euros. For next year, the Executive plans to spend more than 39 million on vaccines.
Finally, he called on the most vulnerable population to get vaccinated. “We cannot relax, we have to continue getting vaccinated,” said Padilla, focusing his message on the importance of getting vaccinated, now that the cold is coming, against the flu and Covid. “I encourage anyone who has not done so yet to contact his health center,” he concluded.
2023-11-15 12:29:00
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