The Yucatan Ministry of Health (SSY) has invited fathers and mothers to go to branch centers across the state to supplement basic vaccination programs for their daughters and sons who require it, because “we have enough doses to provide this. benefit them, “the head of the agency, Mauricio Sauri Vivas, reported in a bulletin.
The official stressed that he tries to protect children, as well as the population of the groups at risk. For this reason, citizens are summoned to the nearest nucleus, where they must present the National Health Card, so that specialized personnel can assist them and apply the drugs.
Likewise, he stressed the importance of protecting the health of children, for whom it is necessary to complete their disease prevention schemes, and specified that, in the three Health Jurisdictions of the institution, they work in coordination with professionals in the sector. to ensure supply. of organic.
For its part, the director of Health Prevention and Protection, Carlos Isaac Hernández Fuentes, said that the vaccine against hepatitis B is available for newborns, in addition to DPT (diphtheria, pertussis and tetanus) and hexavalent (those three, poliomyelitis and influenza infections), of patients with four years of age.
In addition, from rotavirus, for two and four months; pneumococcus, 12; MMR (measles, mumps and rubella), recall at the age of 6; the hexavalent one, for children of two, four, six or 18 months, and in parallel, the one for influenza is distributed, for the seasonal season, in all units.
Dr Hernández Fuentes pointed out that in the case of the BCG vaccine against tuberculosis for infants, the population should take into account that this biological is only available in the state’s urban health centers.
The target groups of this campaign are girls and boys, between six and 59 months; population aged 10 to 59 years with comorbidities; elderly people; pregnant women; workers in the sector, and those living at risk of suffering complications in case of contagion, he explained.
Regarding vulnerability factors, he mentioned heart and lung conditions, congenital or chronic, as well as diabetes mellitus, morbid obesity, emphysema, COPD, asthma, kidney failure, and immunosuppression due to disease or cancer.
