“Health authorities have neglected vaccination”: Francisco Moreno

The country’s health authorities have neglected vaccination so much that they have gone to the extreme of selecting “groups that can be immunized” and those that cannot, when it is a right for the entire population, said the internist and infectious disease specialist. Francisco Moreno.

There are susceptible groups, he said, which obviously may be more at risk, “the problem is that whoever has taken away the opportunity to get vaccinated is the government itself, since it doesn’t have enough vaccines,” he said.

It’s like when you ask to keep the life preservers of a ship for the most vulnerable, and others who drown, because there aren’t enough life preservers,” said Dr. Moreno, referring to statements by the Undersecretary of Health, Hugo López-Gatell. that young people who come to get the flu shot take away the opportunity to immunize groups that need it.

This is another one, he said, “that adds to the huge amount of messages, comments, wrong, wrong, that are political and that have nothing scientific about them.”

In an interview with Pascal Beltrán del Río for Multicast Image, the infectionologist pointed out that vaccines have been abandoned by this government. Both those of Covid, and those of the flu and of children, “and there has been a selection, of who should be vaccinated, because they are at greater risk”.

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The proven formula is that if the majority of the population is vaccinated, the circulation of the virus decreases and therefore the susceptible population is protected.

Furthermore, “it is not known whether even as young people they will have a problem in the evolution of the flu and are not vaccinated because they have not purchased sufficient doses”, also putting this sector at risk, the specialist underlined.

The federal government has purchased 30 million vaccines for 118 million people”, as part of its policy to cut health care costs. But the formula hasn’t worked, because “the cost (spending) of health has gone down and the cost of living has gone up,” he warned.

Being young is not an indicator that one is healthy “at least in Mexico”, since the highest excess mortality that occurred in the covid was in the group of men, between 4 and 60 years old.

Many of them had to work, had diabetes, hypertension or obesity and were not vaccinated in time”, bringing the country to second place with the highest orphan rate in the world, resulting from the SARS- coronavirus pandemic CoV2.

He stressed that in the current administration, vaccine spending has been allocated to other items and to date “one in three children is not vaccinated with the four basic vaccines, and we are creating a generation that in four, five or six years will have susceptibility to development, poliomyelitis, diphtheria, whooping cough, measles”.

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All this “to apply savings in this moment, in which the basis of preventive medicine is vaccines”, in addition to the fact that the vaccination culture in Mexico, which has developed and consolidated in recent decades, is altering, he concluded.

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