Four days after she was born, Luna received her first vaccine BCG against tuberculosis in a health center in Mexico City. In the same place, Mrs. María, 79 years old, was vaccinated against pneumococcus and COVID.
“Let them come and get vaccinated, it doesn’t hurt, so they can come”Mrs. María calls… This year, the national vaccination campaign of the federal Ministry of Health has the objective of recovering the immunization levels prior to the pandemic.
“Therefore, the need for us to close in 2024 with at least 90%, or reach 95%”says Ruy López Ridaura, Undersecretary of Prevention and Health Promotion.
The health official lists some of the available vaccines:
“The strategy is aimed at completing the schemes. Vaccination with measles, rubella and mumps, this vaccine, which has three biologicals, the idea is that those under one year of age have the first dose, and those from 18 months to 6 years of age have a second dose. In addition to this vaccine, which is triple viral, we have the hexavalent vaccine, which is six diseases in a single vaccine, we also have the vaccine for rotavirus, the vaccine for isolated hepatitis B.”.
Ruy López Ridaura assured that there nine million doses for the campaign.
“Everything we had was distributed, we still continue to receive more from the supply, let’s say that we now have 60% of the annual need for 2024, we already have it distributed”he highlighted.
Vaccination in Mexico / Federal Health dose acquisition
- 2020 – 50 million
- 2021 – 32 million
- 2022 – 47.3 million
- 2023 – 53.5 million
- 2024 – 51.6 million
This vaccination campaign of the federal Ministry of Health will be active until May 31, 2024 in the 32 federal entities. In the case of Mexico City you can go to the Health Centers.
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2024-04-05 07:51:00
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