Tegucigalpa, March 1. The Nicaraguan authorities announced this Wednesday that between next April and May they will launch the national vaccination campaign against 17 diseases.
The Nicaraguan vice president, Rosario Murillo, said through official media that this year an intense vaccination day will be carried out aimed at preventing 17 diseases, for which they plan to apply 1.4 million doses of vaccines.
The Ministry of Health brigades will apply “an average of 1.4 million doses of vaccines, including antiparasitics and vitamin A, nationwide,” said Murillo, who is the wife of the country’s president, Daniel Ortega.
This campaign will also include the application of more than one million vaccines against influenza “to protect all of us, and especially people with chronic diseases, pregnant women and health workers,” he noted.
Likewise, the health authorities will maintain “the permanent voluntary vaccination against covid-19, which protects us from 2 years onwards,” he added.
Murillo said that they will also follow up with measles and rubella vaccines, “which is reinforced every 3 or 4 years,” and that an average of 850,000 doses will be applied among boys and girls from 1 to 6 years of age.
He also announced that they plan, in the last quarter of this year, “to introduce the vaccine to protect girls between 10 and 12 years old, against the main serotypes that cause cervical cancer.”
The national vaccination campaign will cover tuberculosis, poliomyelitis, diphtheria, whooping cough, rotavirus viral diarrhea, hepatitis B, viral meningitis, bacterial meningitis, viral pneumonia, bacterial pneumonia, bacterial otitis, influenza, tetanus, measles, rubella, mumps or mole and covid-19, according to the information.
