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Moroccan hospitals will be supplied with influenza and anti-pneumococcal vaccines during next fall, Health Minister Khalid Ait Taleb announced on Saturday.
While waiting for a safe and effective anti-Covid-19 vaccine, the Ministry of Health has decided to conduct a vaccination campaign against seasonal influenza and pneumococcal infections, for the benefit of people suffering from chronic diseases in order to strengthen their immunity, stressed Aid Taleb during a webinar organized under the theme “Covid-19, Flu, HPV and pneumococcus: importance of vaccination, what recommendations? “.
In this context, the Minister emphasized the severity of the seasonal flu for vulnerable populations, including the elderly, pregnant women, infants and people with serious illnesses, while noting that the flu vaccine seasonal is not effective against Covid-19.
However, this is a preventive scenario that will be put in place alongside the preventive measures already in force, he noted.
The government official recalled that each year, between 250,000 and 650,000 people die from seasonal flu around the world, adding that it affects 3 to 5 million people per year across the planet.
This webinar for the general public initiated by the Moroccan Society of Medical Sciences in collaboration with the Ministry of Health, and in partnership in particular with the Association of Free Practice Paediatricians of the Wilaya of Rabat, the Casablanca Association of Private Paediatricians, the Society Marocaine de Paediatrie, the Moroccan Society of Pediatric Infectious Disease and Vaccinology, was an opportunity to discuss various topics related to vaccination in this exceptional period that the Kingdom is going through as everywhere in the world.
National and international experts debated various topical issues in relation to the epidemiological situation in Morocco and around the world, anti-Covid-19 vaccination, or anti-influenza vaccinations.
MS (with MAP)
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