A week ago Galicia premiered a calendar of vaccination raise childhood by incorporating new injections against the human papilloma virus for men, the meningitis B and the complaint which had been compromised by the president of the Xunta, Alfonso Rueda, in the investiture debate. They are more duties for some parents who, for now, leave the community very high bar and generally take on the benefits of vaccination, even if its application decreases slightly in some booster doses.
This is demonstrated by the data, for now provisional and in the absence of statistics from Aragon, prepared by the Ministry of Health. In the lists of communities, Galicia stands out in several injections: for example, it is the leader in the first dose of the triple viral, which protects against measles, mumps and rubella. Virtually all Galician children – 99.8% – receive the sting, compared to 95.3% of the state average. However, households appear to be confused by the second: coverage drops to 93.45 percent, even though the regional average is just over 91.2 percent.
For this the Ministry of Health expresses its concern. On his website he explains that “the goal of maintaining the elimination status of measles and rubella is to achieve and maintain a vaccination coverage of 95% with the first and second dose of vaccine” and the data, instead, show how with the second dose the coverage achieved “is quite far from the target”. In the case of Galicia, the best figure in the last five years was reached in 2017, with 96.2% of children immunized.
Galicia is also a leader in the first dose of chickenpox, an injection that entered the vaccination calendar for children in 2016 after there was fathers willing to pay for it. In the community, coverage reaches 98.85%, although it represents a one-point setback from reaching 2020. The state average is 5 points lower and also down.
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Galician children are also distinguished by the booster dose of protection against diphtheria, tetanus and pertussis. The community is more than seven points higher than the state average, with coverage of 95.89% and is also the highest record in the past five years. The result is almost maintained in the dose in adolescents, in this case against tetanus and diphtheria: Galicia is third, with 93 percent, almost 8 points above the average.
Furthermore, there is no autonomy that surpasses Galicia in the percentage of children who receive the first memory of meningococcus C (99.99%, the highest score in the Galician calendar together with pneumococcus) and in the first dose the data are almost the same ( 99.8%).
The doses of the hexavalent vaccine (Galicia is third) or that of the pneumococcus also shift in that percentage. while that of ACWY meningococci is around 95.2%. They will now be joined by that of meningitis B, a vaccine that parents have come to pay for out of their own pockets and to look for in Portugal.
In almost all vaccinations, the figures drop when booster doses are examined, even in an adherent community such as that of the triple viral: in the hexavalent they drop from almost one hundred percent to 94.2%, the same as in pneumococcus, which falls 94.6%; the 12-year version of diphtheria and tetanus is received by 93% of target adolescents and that of human papillomavirus – which now includes males – goes from 99.4% to 82.3%. Nevertheless, in almost the entire repertoire the Galician numbers are higher than those collected for the state total.
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