Health Centers and Hospitals Host Immunization Week in America 2024: Promoting Vaccination and Boosters

As in the entire region of America, the teams of vaccinators from health centers and hospitalswhich are located throughout the area of ​​the province performing the 22nd edition of Immunization Week in America which started on April 20th and will continue until next April 27th.

Under a comprehensive schedule recommended by all health providers, vaccination days are carried out, through home visits, vaccination tents installed at strategic points in each district, vaccination in schools and in various institutions, among several other activities.

As part of this action, the “Luis María Codda” health center. set up a vaccination center in front of the EPEP No. 445 “Stephen Laureano Maradona” of the Liborsi areawhere a team of vaccinators was submitting Calendar vaccinations so that the residents of that neighborhood and the surrounding areas can complete their vaccination schedules.

At present, emphasis has been placed on the use of the flu vaccine for the five risk groups for which it is intended: Adults over 65 years of age; boys and girls from six months to two years of age; patients with risk factors and pre-existing diseases who are between two and 64 years old; pregnant and postpartum women and active health workers.

On the other hand, the vaccinations urged pregnant women to complete the vaccinations indicated for the gestation period: tricellular bacterial, influenza, hepatitis B and the vaccine against the virus respiratory syncytial, included in the calendar for pregnant women starting in March. 1 this year.

In addition, the day was used to continue promoting, at all ages, the use of the COVID-19 vaccine boosters which, although they have not yet been added to the Vaccination Register, have shown high effectiveness in to avoid the bad symptoms of this disease, , . as well as hospitalizations and deaths.

“The vaccines on our schedule are safe and very effective in preventing many diseases and in reducing the serious manifestations and even deaths that many others can cause. Therefore, it is essential that everyone, at all ages, knows the corresponding vaccines, as they are established,” said the director of the health center, Dr. Lorena Díaz.

In that sense, he pointed out that Vaccination Week in America is useful “for us to review our card and if it is incomplete and we miss some doses, we go to the vaccination sites and we will apply everything necessary, because in those days. , vaccines double their work.”

“Our vaccines are free, safe and life saving. Let’s take advantage of that, which has a high value for health care and, above all, because many diseases, from the most serious to the worst, can be prevented through vaccination,” said the doctor.