Less than 15% of children up to 5 years old have been protected the first time they are included in the campaign
It was the first time that flu vaccination campaign It included, as a risk group, children under five years of age after a long time of demands from the pediatric group. And although parents are the ones who most zealously obey their children’s doctors, Only 15% of this population sector has been protected from the flu. Why did you click on the campaign? “They have not believed in the vaccine,” laments one of the representatives of the group.
The doctor Edelmiro Vergésa member of the Balearic vaccine advisory committee, points out Murcia as the community that has dared to introduce the campaign in schools or Andalusia as the example to follow because “it has made infographics, posters, it has provided schedules… They do.” “they were clear.”
In the Balearic Islands, however, experts only make the decision but are not asked how to execute it. “No one takes on the job of developing the campaign and, if it does not change, protection will never be increased,” laments Vergés.
To be fair we must remember that there has been a change of government and that the campaign was outlined by the previous Executive, however, many decisions depend on the technicians, “or does everything come to a standstill every time there are changes?”
The collective in general asks for more resources to implement a new campaign like this and regrets that Vaccines have an expiration date so many will end up in the trash, when “the population still does not know that the flu is as serious for children under five years old as for those over 65,” explains Vergés. Not only that, this age group is a large reservoir and transmitter of the virus, and is currently where the highest incidence is recorded, as has begun to be seen in this first week of school, with the first casualties in the classrooms.
The pediatricians of the Islands ask for greater involvement by everyone, because it seems that the proper development of the vaccination campaign “is no one’s job, and no one takes it on.” The Spanish Association of Pediatrics of Primary Care in the Balearic Islands also adds that The doses arrived late and there were distribution failures. In any case, specialists have detected multiple errors that they hope will be corrected in the next campaign since there was a tool to stop the flu that has been misused.
point of view
“We have not convinced the population and we must make an effort”
2024-01-10 23:26:41
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