While the vaccination plan against the coronavirus There is still a question mark about what will happen to people under 18 with disabilities, an age group that has not yet received a dose.
For that reason, mothers and fathers grouped in the NGO “Vacuname Chicos en Riesgo” demanded throughout the country that the entry of vaccines produced by Pfizer be approved, the only one enabled for them.
So far, the Government assured that it is waiting for the United States Food and Drug Administration (FDA) to approve the application in minors of the laboratory vaccine Modern, after I arrived in the country a donation from 3.5 million doses by the US Government.
While the arrival of Pfizer It is still unknown, hundreds of people marched this Saturday in squares and monuments of different cities, from Río Negro to Salta, to ask for the purchase of the vaccines made by the American laboratory.
“The idea of mobilization came from the lack of answers to the claims that we initiate virtually. As it was not enough, we decided to go out to the streets to make the claim visible, with all the risks that this implies, “said Ignacio Moore, one of the parents who participated in the demonstration in Plaza de Mayo.
The protesters showed photos of their children and brought empty wheelchairs, representing the children who cannot go out to the streets to protest. Photo Rolando Andrade Stracuzzi
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There they explained that the request for the Pfizer vaccine “is not capricious” and does not respond to any political interest, ideological or economic. “This is simply the only vaccine that was tested in minors and that is approved for application by the main organizations in the world,” they said.
“Our children are being neglected in any vaccination plan and strategy due to their condition and age range, and we need this to be reversed so that they can enjoy their right to health and equal treatment. They can’t keep waiting. One more time, they are the great forgotten of our country“, explained Carolina Di Martino, other of the mothers who complain about her daughter.
And he added: “Today we have them locked in our houses, prisoners, without being able to leave and without being able to have the life that they deserve. No more no less. The life they deserve. ”
To symbolize the difficult situation that the boys go through, empty wheelchairs were seen at the demonstration.
The urgent claim, on the bars of the Casa Rosada. Photo Rolando Andrade Stracuzzi
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“We send letters to Carla Vizzotti and to all the governors. The reality is that we continue to wait and today we have to come to put our body and soul to listen to us because once again our children are the great forgotten of this country,” he asked. Di Martino.
“The approval of the vaccine for those under 18 years of age is imminent”
The Minister of Health of the province of Buenos Aires, Daniel Gollan, said this Saturday that it is “imminent“the approval of vaccines for children under 18 years of age and estimated that” shortly “it will be possible to start inoculating that band, in principle those with comorbidities.
“I believe that shortly we will have the possibility of vaccinating children with comorbidities under 18 because that is where there is the highest mortality“said the official in statements to radio AM 750.
The claim in Villa Mercedes, San Luis.
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Meanwhile, he estimated that “in the Province of Buenos Aires should not be more than 200,000, and then we would continue with the rest” with which he assured that this process will be “fast resolution because there are very few“.
Meanwhile, he stated that “more than 80% of those over 18 years of age they are already registered“in the Province and he was hopeful in” achieving in the next two months to have the largest number of people vaccinated. “
The demonstration in Chivilcoy, province of Buenos Aires.
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He also said that the minority sector “less than 20%” that has not registered to be vaccinated, can be settled with “house-to-house raking, with which we will be above 90 percent, something that in vaccination is an extraordinary number “.
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