Extremadura will begin to give the flu vaccine for the first time for children from six months to 4 years and 11 months. It will be at the beginning of autumn, in October predictably, when the Extremadura Health Service (SES) will administer it in a general way for the next vaccination campaign, as it can be anticipated TODAY. There are almost 29,000 children who can receive it: in the age bracket of 6 to 59 months there are exactly 28,923 children, according to the Extremaduran Administration.
Vaccinating all children half a year old and about to reach 5 years of age is a recommendation from the World Health Organization (WHO) and the European Union that began to be developed last season in our country. Last year only children who were part of a risk group in that age group, such as asthmatics or heart disease, for example, were vaccinated in Extremadura.
On that occasion, the flu vaccine that the SES will administer will be for everyone, regardless of whether they are a risk group or not. It will be placed in health centers and local clinics.
In this way, Extremadura, which adheres to the common vaccination schedule in Spain, goes one step further in coordinated action with the rest of the country’s autonomous communities.
Last December, at a meeting held in Mérida, the Government, through the Interterritorial Council of the National Health System, promoted the so-called common vaccination schedule throughout life for 2023, with the incorporation of four new vaccines.
One of them was the flu for children from six months of age to four years and eleven months. This vaccine is not injected but is given through the nose like a spray.
common
The common calendar indicates the vaccines to be administered to people residing in Spain from the National Health System. Since 2012, the current calendar for the following year has been published each year.
Another of the decisions of the Interterritorial Health Council held in Mérida – chaired at the time by Minister Carolina Darias and with Minister Vergeles and President Vara among his assistants – is that vaccination against human papillomavirus is extended to men.
In this way, both girls and boys will be vaccinated at 12 years of age. The two-dose vaccination schedule will be applicable with a minimum interval of 6 months.
According to data offered by the Ministry of Health to TODAY, in the section of children of 12 years of age will be administered vaccines against meningitis (quadrivalent) in addition to the one outlined for the human papilloma virus. The number of children in this age group stands at 10,360 children.
The Interterritorial Council also approved the recommendation to all regions to systematically vaccinate the child population against invasive meningococcal disease (EMI) by serogroup B with the 4CMenB vaccine.
It was decided “due to the high severity and sequelae of this disease, as well as the fairness of the measure in the population.” These vaccines, decided by the Ministry and the autonomous communities, will be incorporated before the end of next year 2024 for 2, 4 and 12 months of age, it being especially important to vaccinate on time at 2 and 4 months of age.
age ranges
The Ministry of Health and Social Policies explains to HOY that our autonomous community adheres to all the recommendations specified in said calendar. In the year 2023, it includes the following vaccination recommendations according to the various age groups up to 14 years of age.
Thus, in the first year of life, for children from zero to twelve months, vaccines will be given to prevent the following diseases: diphtheria, tetanus, whooping cough, haemophilus influenza, hepatitis B, poliomyelitis, meningitis (C, B), pneumococcus , rubella, measles and mumps. The number of children from Extremadura to be vaccinated in this age group stands at 6,736.
Meanwhile, for children who are fifteen months old, vaccines against chickenpox will be administered. There are 6,736 children of that age this year.
Vaccines against measles, rubella, mumps and chickenpox will be injected for 7,886 4-year-old children.
In the case of 6-year-old children there are vaccines against polio, diphtheria, tetanus and whooping cough. The number of children in this age bracket stands at 8,831.
At the age of 12 is the time for the vaccines against meningitis (quadrivalent) and the human papilloma virus as previously indicated, and at the age of 14 it is time to administer the one against tetanus and diphtheria. There are 10,871 children with this age.
Therefore, from zero to 14 years, the total number of children who are the population of this common vaccination schedule amounts to 51,400 in Extremadura throughout this 2023.
Three regions began to put it last season
The flu vaccine for children between 6 and 59 months will be generalized this campaign throughout Spain. In the last campaign, 2022-2023, it was introduced for the first time in their territories by the governments of the autonomous communities of Andalusia, Galicia and Murcia. In the specific case of the Murcian region, it was the only community where last season the intranasal attenuated vaccine was used for children from 2 to 4 years of age in which it was not contraindicated, reports the Spanish Association of Primary Care Pediatrics. For its part, the regional government of Castilla y León was the first to announce this year that it will also use the attenuated vaccine for this season, something that will also be done in Extremadura.
2023-08-23 05:18:36
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