The Minister of Health and Sports, María Renée Castro, urged the population this Tuesday to take children to health centers to receive the pneumococcal vaccine, in order to protect them against meningitis.
“We have children who must be immunized from now on, protecting against pneumococcus and we urge that all families come to complete the entire vaccination schedule for Pneumococcus, Influenza, Covid-19, ECR, FDP, Pentavalent, absolutely all vaccines,” Castro said, according to an institutional report.
Castro explained that the pneumococcal vaccine is given at a young age and that the national government guarantees the biological ones.
The Minister of Health clarified that the two cases of meningitis presented in two children in La Paz are isolated and would be a case with Streptococcus Pneumoni, a “bacteria that is well known in the environment, which generally causes pneumonia and which today is can be prevented through vaccination.
The authority explained that meningitis generally presents symptoms such as high fever, pain in the neck, cold hands and feet, vomiting, some neurological difficulties, blurred vision and even losing some of the senses or having some type of alteration. neurological.
“Therefore, parents have to be very aware of their children with the symptoms they present,” Castro added.
2023-10-31 15:14:26
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