The first doses of the 2022 flu vaccination campaign arrived in Mar del Platawhich this year was brought forward by the increase in cases of influenza registered due to the anticipation of the circulation of the virus.
In this framework, the city received more than three thousand doses that were distributed in the three points where At the moment only health personnel are inoculated.
Sources from Sanitary Zone VIII detailed to THE CAPITAL that the Hospital Interzonal General de Acudos (HIGA), the Hospital Interzonal Especializado Materno Infantil (HIEMI) and the Health Center No. 1 each received two boxes of 560 influenza vaccines.
“In this first instance it is only for health personnel, then the rest of the prioritized groups will be enabled”added from the health region and trusted that this process will be “fast”.
In this regard, it should be remembered that the prioritized groups In vaccination against influenza, in addition to health personnel, it is made up of pregnant women, postpartum women, children from 6 months to two years, people from 2 to 64 years with risk factors and people over 65 years of age.
Meanwhile, from the Ministry of Health they confirmed that in the Health Center No. 1 they have already begun to apply the vaccines to the health personnel and clarified that “There is no date for the community yet”.
For the flu vaccination campaign, the National Ministry of Health acquired 9.6 million doses, of which 1.5 million are pediatric, which have already begun to be distributed throughout the country.
For its part, the health portfolio of the Province began with influenza vaccination with a first round of 408 thousand doses.
This year, unlike the previous ones, the action had to be brought forward due to the precipitation of influenza casesgiven that the increase in infections usually begins in late autumn and during the winter, but this time the cases began to spread earlier, especially in children.
“We usually vaccinate before the virus begins to circulate in the country, this year it began to circulate a little earlier,” said the Buenos Aires Minister of Health, Nicholas Kreplakand explained that it is “the same flu as always, with a different variant that is not contemplated in the previous vaccines, so you have to get vaccinated”.
In turn, he clarified that “the vaccine is not for everyone” and expressed that “A healthy person between the ages of 2 and 64 has no indication to be vaccinated.”
Health specialists specified that the flu vaccine is compatible with the Covid vaccine, so they can be applied without intervals between them.
Furthermore, they recalled for people who present risk factors, a medical prescription will not be required to request its application; Instead, the presentation by the citizen of any documentation that certifies the existence of pre-existing diseases will be requested.
The anti-influenza vaccination campaign aims to reduce complications, hospitalizations, deaths and sequelae caused by infection by the influenza virus in the population at risk, for which the goal of the health authorities is to achieve coverage greater than or equal to 95% in each population group at risk.
From the health portfolio they indicated that to know the vaccination points and consult more information about it, you have to enter www.gba.gob.ar/vacunacion/.
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