La Paz, Baja California Sur. – As part of the 2024-2025 winter vaccination campaign developed by the Government of Mexico to protect the vulnerable population from respiratory infections, the biological against Covid-19 is being provided free of charge in health centers and hospitals in Baja California Sur to people who They have higher risk factors for this viral disease.
According to the guidelines of the campaign, said biological can be supplied to people over 60 years of age and older, pregnant women, as well as people aged 18 years and older who have comorbidities such as diabetes, hypertension, morbid obesity, chronic cardiovascular and pulmonary diseases, kidney failure, cancer and HIV, said the State Coordinator of the Vaccination Program, Héctor García Hurtado.
The goal is to apply more than 67 thousand doses to the target groups of this preventive strategy, among which are also people over five years of age who have not received any vaccine against this infection, the doctor said, highlighting the importance of that users come with their health card to have an adequate record of the interventions they receive.
This vaccination campaign is applied with the biological Abdala, which according to scientific studies such as the one published by the magazine “Medic review” and taken up by the Harvard School of Public Health, has high percentages of effectiveness in avoiding serious forms of the disease, he stated. the public servant adding that the benefits of this vaccine were confirmed in fact by helping to reduce the rates of hospitalization and deaths from Covid in BCS.
In 2023, around 80 thousand Abdala-type vaccines were supplied in our entity, without registration of an adverse effect (ESAVI) before the pharmacovigilance authorities and taking into account that this application has contributed significantly to the entity having registered, so far In 2024, 117 patients were hospitalized for covid, with five deaths, all of which occurred in patients over 60 years of age with no history of vaccination, concluded García Hurtado.
