Vaccination of children between 12 and 17 years old with some comorbidity begins

The Secretariat of Health of Guanajuato will initiate this October 26th, the vaccination of minors between 12 and 17 years of age with some comorbidity in the state, as announced by the Secretary of Health, Dr. Daniel Díaz Martínez.

So far there is a record of more than 26 thousand minors , but it could go up to 100 thousand applicants, as the registration continues, the state official said.

The day will take place in the hospitals belonging to the Secretariat from 08:00 in the morning and the doses will be applied until all the children on record and the 48 minors who currently have a protection are vaccinated.

Some of the comorbidities are chronic cardiac, chronic lung disease, chronic conditions, kidney, liver and digestive system, chronic neurological disease, endocrine diseases, moderate or severe immunosuppression, Asplenia or spleen dysfunction and hematological diseases, serious genetic abnormalities affecting the various systems.

“On behalf of the Secretariat of Health of Guanajuato, a census was carried out of the patients of the Pediatric Specialties Hospital of León susceptible to receiving this vaccine and groups of children with certain diseases, so that through their tutors they can register on the platform federation ”said Díaz Martínez while pointing out that it is important to go with the prior proof of the virtual registration.

The brand vaccine will be applied to minors Pfizer, vaccination is solely and exclusively for this group of the population. To this vaccination day were added SEDENA, IMSS, ISSSTE, the Bajío Regional High Specialty Hospital and PEMEX.

“If it is very important to comment that it will not be for the open population (…) It is only for children and also for those who had taken shelter,” said Daniel Díaz Martínez, Secretary of Health, so that those who do not correspond on this occasion application of the biological will have to wait.

In fact, recently the state official was emphatic in ensuring that those who wish to have a first dose against the coronavirus will have to apply the Sputnik V vaccine and second-dose laggards will have to wait for the corresponding biological to be released.

“There will be no vaccines from other laboratories, for those people who were first doses of Pfizer or AstraZeneca there will no longer be first doses” from other laboratories, anticipated the owner of the SSG in an interview with Telediario.

Therefore, he called to trust the vaccine of Russian origin: “It is a vaccine that according to what the representative of the Sedena in Guanajuato told us today, the permission of the World Health Organization will be released very soon. It is a vaccine that is in the process of being approved, we hope it will be as soon as possible, so that there is no problem in that population group that was waiting for another brand of vaccine because perhaps it was waiting to travel abroad. There will be no other brand of vaccines “, he pointed out.