Health authorities have installed a device, to be developed from September, that will make it easier for children and adults to get their dose of the calendar or flu vaccine at a nearby CAPS.
The Minister of Health of the commune, through his department of primary health care, will carry out an operation to strengthen the calendar vaccination and influenza vaccination (for children and adults) in primary health care centers, starting in September, according to the following schedule:
-Progreso District CAPS (CIC): the first Tuesday of each month from 8:00 am to 12:00 pm. In this case, the device will start on Tuesday, September 5th.
-CAPS County Union: Second Thursday of each month from 8:00 am to 11:00 am. In this case, the device will start on Thursday the 14th.
-CAPS of the Santa Teresa District: Third Friday of every month from 10:00 am to 12:30 pm. In this case, the device will start on Friday, September 15th.
We remind those who wish that they must come to the event with their medical book.
It should be noted that the Ministry of Health of the nation, in coordination with the Argentine Society for Vaccines and Epidemiology (SAVE), has launched strategic vaccination operations to prevent respiratory infections.
These devices will be developed within four months. The goal is to complete the application of the National Calendar doses and, given the current epidemiological scenario associated with winter, the use of vaccines associated with respiratory diseases and the increase in Covid-19 is encouraged.
Influenza vaccination, included in the National Immunization Schedule, aims to reduce complications, hospitalizations, mortality, and the consequences of influenza virus infection in populations at high risk of developing a complicated illness.
In this sense, it should be recalled that pregnant women should receive an influenza or flu vaccine in any trimester of pregnancy (in case the woman was not vaccinated during pregnancy, the mother should do so within 10 days after delivery); boys and girls 6 to 24 months of age who need 2 doses at least 4 weeks apart if they have not previously received two doses of influenza vaccine (those who have received at least two doses of influenza vaccine should receive only one dose) . Risk groups also have a prescription for vaccination: people aged 2 to 64 with certain medical conditions, such as respiratory and heart conditions; diabetics; congenital or acquired immunodeficiencies (not oncohematological); obese people, oncohematological patients and transplant recipients; cohabitants of oncohematological patients; people with chronic kidney disease who are on dialysis or who are expected to start dialysis within the next six months; people with severe developmental delay in children under 18; those who constantly take acetylsalicylic acid under the age of 18; people with genetic syndromes; with neuromuscular diseases, respiratory disorders and severe congenital malformations, as well as cohabitants of premature babies weighing less than 1500 g and others.